storied

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔːɹid/

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Etymology 1

From story +‎ -ed.

Adjective

storied (comparative more storied, superlative most storied)

1. Much talked or written about.

   Synonym: legendary

   • 2021 July 30, Alex Hawgood, “These Clubhouse Hosts Are Keeping the Party Alive”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Not long after, the couple caught the attention of S. Somasegar, the storied Indian American technology executive, who was at Microsoft at the time.

   • 28 March 2023, Graeme McGarry, “Scott McTominay earns place in history as Scotland stun Spain”, in The Herald‎^[2]:

     Sure, they could have held onto the ball better at times, but they were compact, organised, and hardly gave their storied visitors a sniff from there on in.

2. Historical.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.

Verb

storied

1. simple past and past participle of story

Etymology 2

From story (“floor, level”) +‎ -ed.

Adjective

storied (comparative more storied, superlative most storied)

1. (chiefly US) Having multiple storeys; multistoried.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, “The Seate, and the Worke”, in The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC, I. part, pages 39–40:

     [W]hen vvee ſpeake of the Intercolumniation or diſtance, vvhich is due to each Order, vve meane in a Dorique, Ionicall, Corinthian Porch, or Cloiſter, or the like of one Contignation, and not in Storied buildings.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Just as the first ray of the rising sun shot like a golden arrow athwart this storied desolation we gained the further gateway of the outer wall[.]

Alternative forms

• storeyed (UK)

Anagrams

• destroi, oestrid, steroid, roisted, trideos, editors, ostreid, triodes, tie rods, sortied, doiters, tierods