# storied

Pronunciation: say "STOR-eed" /ˈstɔɹid/

## Adjective

1. Widely discussed or written about.
   - Simple: Talked about or written about by many people.
   - _Journalists returned again and again to the storied career of the aging champion._
   - _The expedition became storied in the press long before it reached the summit._
2. Relating to or belonging to history; historical.
   - Simple: Connected to history or to events from the past.
   - _The chronicle preserves storied accounts of the kingdom's earliest rulers._
   - _These storied walls have witnessed every major era of the nation._
3. Having a specified number of floors or levels, as in a building. *(US)*
   - Simple: Having floors or levels, used to say how many a building has.
   - _Developers replaced the old row houses with a six-storied apartment block._
   - _A twelve-storied office tower now stands where the warehouse used to be._

## Verb

4. Simple past tense and past participle of story. — simple past and past participle of story
   - Simple: Simple past tense and past participle of story. Use this form when the action happened earlier.
   - _The artisans storied the cathedral ceiling with scenes from scripture._
   - _The bronze doors were storied with reliefs of the city's founding._

## Origin

**Meanings 1–2, 4** — Formed from the noun "story" combined with the suffix "-ed".
**Meaning 3** — Formed from "story" in the sense of "floor, level" combined with the suffix "-ed".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/storied (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).