story
6 definitions found
story - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Story \Sto"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.
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One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story.
--Barrow.
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Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive
story. --Ed. Rev.
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The four great monarchies make the subject of
ancient story. --Sir W.
Temple.
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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.
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3. A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to
tell a story. [Colloq.]
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Story \Sto"ry\, n.; pl. Stories. [OF. estor['e], estor['e]e,
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.]
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Note: 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.
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Story post (Arch.), a vertical post used to support a floor
or superincumbent wall.
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Story \Sto"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.
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How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter,
rather than story him in his own hearing. --Shak.
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It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it
was seventy cubits high. --Bp. Wilkins.
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story - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
story
n 1: 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" [syn: narrative, narration,
story, tale]
2: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;
"he writes stories for the magazines"
3: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single
position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office
on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story]
4: 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" [syn:
history, account, chronicle, story]
5: 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"
[syn: report, news report, story, account, write up
]
6: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how
can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: fib,
story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]
story - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Story, AR
Zip code(s): 71970
Story, WY
Zip code(s): 82842
story - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
252 Moby Thesaurus words for "story":
Clio, Muse of history, account, action, adventures, alibi,
allegation, allegory, anagnorisis, anecdotage, anecdote, angle,
annals, architectonics, architecture, argument, article, assertion,
atmosphere, autobiography, back-fence gossip, background, band,
beat, bed, bedding, belly laugh, belt, biographical sketch,
biography, blague, blue story, book, budget of news, case history,
catastrophe, characterization, chitchat, chronicle, chronicles,
chronology, clerestory, cock-and-bull story, color, complication,
confabulation, confessions, contention, continuity, contrivance,
copy, couche, course, curriculum vitae, deck, denouement,
description, design, detective story, development, device, diary,
dirty joke, dirty story, dispatch, double entendre, entresol, epic,
episode, epos, ethnic joke, exaggeration, exclusive, excuse,
experiences, fable, fabliau, fabrication, facts, fairy, fairy tale,
falling action, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago,
feature, fib, fiction, first floor, fish story, flam, flat,
flimflam, floor, folktale, fortunes, fun, funny story, gag,
gallery, gest, ghost story, gimmick, good one, good story, gossip,
gossiping, gossipmongering, gossipry, ground floor,
groundless rumor, hagiography, hagiology, half-truth,
historiography, history, howler, idle talk, incident, information,
item, jape, jest, jestbook, joke, journal, laugh, layer, ledge,
legal fiction, legend, level, lie, life, life and letters,
life story, line, little white lie, local color, martyrology,
measures, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials,
mendacity, mezzanine, mezzanine floor, mood, motif, movement,
mystery, myth, mythos, narration, narrative, necrology, news,
news item, newsmongering, obituary, overlayer, overstory, panic,
parable, peripeteia, photobiography, piece, piece of gossip,
pious fiction, plan, play, plot, point, prevarication, profile,
recital, recognition, record, recounting, release, report,
representation, resume, rez-de-chaussee, rib tickler, riot,
rising action, romance, saga, scenario, scheme, scoop, scream,
seam, secondary plot, shelf, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag,
slant, slight stretching, sport, spot news, stage, statement, step,
stratum, street floor, structure, subject, subplot, substratum,
summary, superstratum, switch, tale, talebearing, taletelling,
talk, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tattle, testimony,
thematic development, theme, theory of history, thickness,
thriller, tidings, tier, tittle-tattle, tone, topic, topsoil,
trumped-up story, twist, underlayer, understory, understratum,
untruth, version, visual joke, wheeze, white lie, whodunit, wow,
yarn, zone
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