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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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.
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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
Footage from the city shows many multistory buildings completely flattened and others ripped apart by blasts.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
But the multistory building at the corner of Walnut and Second Streets was more than just a place to eat.
—Victoria Flexner, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
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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
Footage from the city shows many multistory buildings completely flattened and others ripped apart by blasts.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
But the multistory building at the corner of Walnut and Second Streets was more than just a place to eat.
—Victoria Flexner, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for multistory
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“Multistory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multistory. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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