multistory

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• PHOTO (COLOR): Pueblo Bonito was one of the massive, multistory buildings called "Great Houses" that were first built at Chaco Canyon in the ninth century.

  Academic text (2009)

• We walked some more and made our way to Ssamziegil, a multistory, winding network of artist shops and studios.

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• Even more, though, is an emergent landscape that is visible in the background to the left in the form of a new multistory block building.

  Academic text (2013)

• The lonely, multistory masonry structure, or "great house," is our first stop in Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico.

  Academic text (2009)

• To the northeast were the Anasazi, builders of Chaco Canyon, with its multistory great houses and sophisticated road network.

  Academic text (2004)

• Tightly packed, multistory buildings and a well-organized, uniform architectural style set it apart from the more free-form.

  Academic text (2010)

• Early buildings were either multistory apartment buildings or two-story row houses similar to those the Queensboro Corporation had constructed in Elmhurst and Woodside.

  Academic text (2004)

• For instance, while bathroom floor drains are not typically found in residential buildings in the United States, they are ubiquitous in public and commercial buildings, including hospitals and nursing homes, K-12 schools, and multistory commercial office buildings.

  Academic text (2006)

• Both had "Great Houses," massive, geometrically exact, multistory buildings that transformed conventional Pueblo architecture into monumental edifices.

  Academic text (2009)

• Voted the best hostel in the United States by Hosteling International, the Buffalo hostel is a multistory delight for those looking to save a few pennies.

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Synonyms

M

multilevel

vsmultistory

1 3.7

A building with more than one floor

uses floor wording rather than level

M

multistoried

vsmultistory

• UK

3.6

A building with more than one floor

has identical meaning but uses an alternative written form

S

storied

vsmultistory

• UK

4.4

A building that has a set number of floors

refers generally to having multiple floors without specifying number

How Many Floors

multistory

• US

1 3.5

storyless

• US

6.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology