Storey Or Floor

The ground flor is at ground level and the first floor is abve that.

Storey or floor.

Plurals for the word are storeys and stories for the english uk and english us versions respectively. Houses must not be more than two storeys high the upper storeys of the empire state building. A level of a building. Floor is freely used alongside storey i have no reason to believe that the use of either term is geographically restricted.

A floor or level of a building or ship. In american english it s spelled story and stories and at street level it s the first floor ground floor is not used. Storey plural storeys a building. For the noun referring to a horizontal level of a building story is the standard spelling in american english and storey is preferred in all the other main varieties of english.

In the context you are asking about storey uk etc and story us are both equivalent in meaning to floor. Floor level story us coordinate term. The first storey is at ground level and second storey is the one above. So the ground floor is the first storey never story and the first floor the second storey.

Floor level flight deck more synonyms of storey. The plural of the american story is stories and the plural of the storey is storeys. The supporting surface of a room. As a verb floor is to cover or furnish with a floor.

A level of a building. As nouns the difference between storey and floor is that storey is a floor or level of a building or ship while floor is the bottom or lower part of any room. Note that in british english it s spelt storey and storeys and at street level it s the ground floor the next level being the first floor.