How to pronounce story
American English pronunciation
STOR-ee
- IPA
- /ˈstɔɹi/
- Syllables
- STOR · ee (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What story means
Most people know story in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
One floor or level of a building
In a sentence: Their apartment is on the third story, so we climbed a lot of stairs.
Where it comes from: In Britain it is spelled storey. It goes back to the same Latin word, historia, as a story you read, but no one is sure how it came to mean a floor.
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