multi-storiedadj.
/ˌmʌltɪˈstɔːrɪd/, U.S. /ˌməltiˈstɔrid/; see also multi- comb. form. = multi-storey adj.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific internal arrangement > [adjective] > number of storeys
one-storey1796
two-lofted1819
one-storeyed1821
four-story1833
single-storied1835
upstairs1840
multi-storied1891
multi-storey1902
low-rise1922
single-storey1947
tri-level1960
1891 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 10 Aug. 8/1 With the growth of the great multi-storied office buildings in Chicago safe-lifting has become a profession.
1902 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 21 Sept. 27/1 (headline) A Multi-Storied Place of Eating and Sleeping.
1917 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 3 497 In its simplest form it has but one story; the multistoried form is characteristic of the highest developed condition of the eastern or pueblo area.
1935 Sci. Monthly Sept. 257/1 What was as remarkable as the contents of his multi-storied brain was the fact that [etc.].
1946 Nature 28 Sept. 439/1 The first remedy was to provide adequate car parks, underground, at ground level, and in multi-storied buildings.
1964 J. Summerson Classical Lang. Archit. ii. 15 A building which..is multi-storeyed.
1991 World Press Rev. Nov. 59/1 A town of unpaved, white-sanded roads and a handful of multi-storied buildings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1891