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Definition and meaning of story
Definitions
story (n.)
1.the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings"he teaches Medieval history" "history takes the long view"
2.a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events"he writes stories for the magazines"
3.a record or narrative description of past events"a history of France" "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president" "the story of exposure to lead"
4.a short account of the news"the report of his speech" "the story was on the 11 o'clock news" "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"
5.a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program"his narrative was interesting" "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
6.(American)a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale"what level is the office on?"
7.(colloquial)a trivial lie"he told a fib about eating his spinach" "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
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Merriam Webster
StorySto"ry (?), n.; pl. Stories (#). [OF. estoré, estorée, built, erected, p. p. of estorer to build, restore, to store. See Store, v. t.] A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also storey.]
☞ A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another; as, a story of nine or ten feet elevation. The spaces between floors are numbered in order, from below upward; as, the lower, second, or third story; a house of one story, of two stories, of five stories.
Story post (Arch.), a vertical post used to support a floor or superincumbent wall.
StorySto"ry, n. [OE. storie, OF. estoire, F. histoire, fr. L. historia. See History.]
1. A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story. Barrow.
Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive story. Ed. Rev.
The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story. Sir W. Temple.
2. The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance. Addison.
3. A euphemism or child's word for “a lie;” a fib; as, to tell a story. [Colloq.]
StorySto"ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Storied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Storying.] To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.
How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing. Shak.
It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high. Bp. Wilkins.
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Synonyms
story (n.)
account, chronicle, description, excuse, fable, fiction, floor, history, legend, level, little story, myth, narration, narrative, news report, novel, recital, relation, report, romance, tale, theme, version, write up, yarn
story (n.) (colloquial)
See also
story (n.)
↘ historian, historic, historical, historiographer, multilevel, narrate, recite, recount, tell ↗ relate
Phrases
⇨ blue story • fairy story • fairy-story • good story • life story • little story • short story • story line • story-board • story-boarder • to cut a long story short • travel story
⇨ 1408 (short story) • A Children's Story • A Children’s Story • A Chinese Ghost Story • A Cock and Bull Story • A Nasty Story • A Soldier's Story • A Story of Water • Academy Award for Best Story • Afternoon, a story • All the King's Horses (story) • Apocryphal story • April Story • Araby (short story) • Australian Story • Back-story • Based on a True Story (The Starting Line album) • Bedtime Story (madonna song) • Bedtime Story (song) • Bedtime story • Bedtime story (disambiguation) • Benediction (story) • Berenice (short story) • Bible story • Bitch (short story) • Bliss (short story) • Bomberman Story DS • Caper story • Carnival Story • Coventry (short story) • Cruel Story of Youth • Dagon (short story) • Detective Story • Embroidery (short story) • End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story • Enemies, a Love Story • Erotic Ghost Story • Europe (story) • Everything's Eventual (short story) • Fairyland Story • Façade (interactive story) • Fort Story • Fort Story, Virginia • From Beyond (short story) • Ghost Story (film) • Gray Matter (short story) • Head and Shoulders (story) • Hinterlands (short story) • Homecoming (short story) • Hotel Story • How to Tell a Story and Other Essays • III Sides to Every Story • Inverted detective story • John Story • Joseph Story • Just-so story • Leave the Story Untold • Lenny (short story) • Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground • Lisey's Story • List of 100 Bullets story arcs • List of short story authors • Louisiana Story • Love Story • Men Without Women (short story collection) • Meta-story • Methuselah's Children (short story) • Minus Story • Misfit (short story) • Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story • My Story • My Thomas Story Library • New Police Story • One More Story • One for the Road (short story) • Organization story • Our Island Story • Partners in Crime (short story collection) • Paste (story) • Perceval, the Story of the Grail • Photo-story • Police Story (TV series) • Police Story (movie) • Police Story 2 • Profession (short story) • Pâté de Foie Gras (short story) • Rashōmon (short story) • Real Story • Requiem (short story) • Risk (short story) • Riz Story • Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre • Robert Herbert Story • Round-robin story • Sarge(Toy Story) • Satisfaction Guaranteed (short story) • School's Ghost Story • Sea story • Searchlight (short story) • Shaggy dog story • Short Story (music) • Short story • Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman • Space Jockey (short story) • Story Bridge • Story City, Iowa • Story County, Iowa • Story Land • Story So Far • Story dramatization • Story of O • Story of Sinuhe • Story within a story • Story, Wyoming • Story-within-a-story • Tales from the Neverending Story • Tank (short story) • Tell Me a Story • Tell Me a Story (About the Night Before) • The Alchemist (short story) • The Bible Story • The Birds (story) • The Black Cat (short story) • The Buddy Holly Story • The Christine Jorgensen Story • The Christmas Story • The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill • The Definitive Ol' Dirty Bastard Story • The Dominica Story • The Eddy Duchin Story • The FBI Story • The Festival (short story) • The Green Hills of Earth (short story collection) • The Jackie Robinson Story • The Jacksons Story • The Jolson Story • The Leopard Man's Story • The Lex Diamond Story • The Liar (short story) • The Lounge Story • The Man Who Sold the Moon (short story collection) • The NeverEnding Story (film) • The NeverEnding Story III • The Neverending Story (TV series) • The New World (short story collection) • The New Zealand Story • The Nun's Story • The Outsider (short story) • The Palm Beach Story • The Philadelphia Story (film) • The Portrait (short story) • The Raw Story • The Rosa Parks Story • The Sandman (short story) • The Secretary of Dreams (story collection) • The Sentinel (short story) • The Sisters (short story) • The Sniper (story) • The Story Goes... • The Story of Adele H. • The Story of B • The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India • The Story of Louis Pasteur • The Story of Lucretia (Botticelli) • The Story of My Experiments with Truth • The Story of O • The Story of Peter Grey • The Story of Star Wars • The Story of a Three-Day Pass • The Story of an African Farm • The Story of an Hour • The Story of the Amulet • The Story of the Clash, Volume 1 • The Story of the Kelly Gang • The Story of the Night • The Story of the Three Bears • The Story on Page One • The Straight Story • The Underworld Story • The Unnamable (short story) • The Untold Story • The White Ship (story) • The Zoo Story • There Is No Beginning to the Story • They (short story) • True Hollywood Story • Underworld Story • Untold Story, Vol. 2 • User story • Vagrant Story • Viy (story) • West Side Story • Westside Story (song) • White Nights (short story) • William Wetmore Story and His Friends • William and Mary (short story) • Xmas Story • Yoshi's Story • Zoetrope All-Story Workshop
Analogical dictionary
story (n.)
science of history[Classe]
story (n.)
propos, ce qu'on dit (paroles ou écrits) (fr)[Classe]
account; story[Classe]
Histoire (fr)[termes liés]
(book; volume; needlework; embroidery; fancywork)[termes liés]
story (n.)
[American]
floor; level; storey; story; deck[ClasseHyper.]
plan horizontal surélevé (fr)[Classe]
église (édifice) (fr)[DomainDescrip.]
construction, structure[Hyper.]
story (n.)
fiction[Hyper.]
story (n.)
account; story[ClasseHyper.]
record[Hyper.]
relate[Nominalisation]
chronicle, jot down, make a note of, note, record, set down, take a note of, take down, write down - historic[Dérivé]
story (n.)
story (n.)
[colloquial]
lie, prevarication[Hyper.]
fib[Dérivé]
story (n.)
partie d'un discours (fr)[Classe]
relation orale ou écrite d'un événement (fr)[Classe]
narrative; narration; story; tale[ClasseHyper.]
content, message, subject matter, substance[Hyper.]
tell - narrate, recite, recount, tell - narrate[Dérivé]
Wikipedia
Story
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Look up story or stories in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Story or Stories may refer to:
- Story, a recounting of a sequence of events
- Narrative
- Story (surname)
- Story, or storey, a floor or level of a building
- Stories, colloquial, US American expression for soap operas
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Media
- Story (magazine), an American literary magazine published 1931–1961 and 1989–2000
- The Story with Dick Gordon, a radio interview program that debuted in 2006
- Story, one of the main characters in the 2006 film Lady in the Water
- Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting, a screenwriting guide by Robert McKee.
Music
- Artists
- The Story (UK band), an English psych-folk band 2002–present
- Stories (band), an early 1970s American rock group
- The Story (band), an early 1990s folk-rock duo
- Albums
- Story (Amorphis album), compilation, 2000
- The Story (Brandi Carlile album), 2007
- Story (Eric Clapton album), compilation, 1991
- A Story, 1997 album by Yoko Ono, recorded in 1974
- Stories (Mayumi Iizuka album), 2008
- Stories (Addison Road album), 2010
- Stories (Gloria Gaynor album), 1980
- Stories (A Narada Artist Collection), 1998 compilation
- Stories (Randy Stonehill album), compilation
- The Story, 2006 album by Bizzy Bone
- Story, 1970 album by Honeybus
- Songs
- "The Story" (song), 2007, by Brandi Carlile from her album The Story
- "Story" (Leddra Chapman song), 2009 single
- "Stories" (Boney M. song), 1990 single
- "Stories" (Therapy? song), 1995 single
- "Stories", a song from Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
- "The Story", song by 30 Seconds to Mars from their album A Beautiful Lie
- "Story", B-side of the "Makes Me Wonder" single by Maroon 5
- "Stories", song by Trapt from Trapt
People with given name Story
- Story Musgrave (born 1935), American doctor and astronaut
- Story Tweedie-Yates (born 1983), professional American tennis player
Places
- Story, Indiana, United States
- Story, Wyoming, United States
- Story City, Iowa, United States
- Story County, Iowa, United States
- Fort Story, former name of Joint Expeditionary Base East, a sub-installation of the United States Navy and Little Creek Amphibious Base
- Story, Arkansas, United States
See also
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Wikiversity has learning materials about Story |
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