multistory
adjective
mul·ti·sto·ry
ˌməl-tē-ˈstȯr-ē 
-ˌtī-
variants
or less commonly multistoried
ˌməl-tē-ˈstȯr-ēd
or chiefly British multistorey
-ˌtī-
ˌməl-tē-ˈstȯr-ē
-ˌtī-
of a building
: having more than two stories
a multistory apartment building
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Lebanon's border villages are a mixture of simple concrete houses and multistory stone mansions built for extended families often with money made from years of working abroad.
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Jane Arraf, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
Pathways between tents turned into roads among tightly packed multistory buildings—some so narrow that ambulances could not pass.
—Shelly Culbertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Floors are removed in every house — renderings show residents sitting on their laptops with the old house exteriors forming a kind of multistory lounge wall.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 20 Oct. 2025
One pleasant midsummer day in 2001, Roomba’s engineers, Winston Tao, and several other iRobot folk rendezvoused at an unremarkable, multistory office building on the Cambridge side of the Charles River, across from Boston.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2025
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Jane Arraf, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
Pathways between tents turned into roads among tightly packed multistory buildings—some so narrow that ambulances could not pass.
—Shelly Culbertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Floors are removed in every house — renderings show residents sitting on their laptops with the old house exteriors forming a kind of multistory lounge wall.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 20 Oct. 2025
One pleasant midsummer day in 2001, Roomba’s engineers, Winston Tao, and several other iRobot folk rendezvoused at an unremarkable, multistory office building on the Cambridge side of the Charles River, across from Boston.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Multistory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multistory. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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