storied
English
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editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editstoried (comparativemorestoried,superlativemoststoried)
- Much discussed or written about.
- Synonym:legendary
- 28 March 2023, Graeme McGarry, “Scott McTominay earns place in history as Scotland stun Spain”, inThe Herald[2]:
- Sure, they could have held onto the ball better at times, but they were compact, organised, and hardly gave theirstoried visitors a sniff from there on in.
- Historical.
- 1851 November 14,Herman Melville, chapter 3, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC:
- Some werestoried weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
Verb
editstoried
- simplepast andpastparticiple ofstory
Etymology 2
editFromstory(“floor, level”) +-ed.
Adjective
editstoried (comparativemorestoried,superlativemoststoried)
- (chieflyUS) Havingmultiplestoreys;multistoried.
- 1624,Henry Wotton, “The Seate, and the Worke”, inThe Elements of Architecture, […], London:[…] Iohn Bill,→OCLC, I. part,pages39–40:
- [W]hen vvee ſpeake of theIntercolumniation ordiſtance, vvhich is due to eachOrder, vve meane in aDorique,Ionicall,Corinthian Porch, orCloiſter, or the like of oneContignation, and not inStoried buildings.
- 1886 October –1887 January,H[enry] Rider Haggard,She: A History of Adventure, London:Longmans, Green, and Co., published1887,→OCLC:
- Just as the first ray of the rising sun shot like a golden arrow athwart thisstoried desolation we gained the further gateway of the outer wall[.]
Alternative forms
edit- storeyed(UK)
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