story
see also: Story
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Story
Proper noun
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see also: Story
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis.
Nounstory (plural stories)
- An account of real or fictional events.
- Synonyms: tome
- 1673, William Temple, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland:
- ...it must be exploded for fabulous, with other relics of ancient story...
- June 1861, Edinburgh Review, The Kingdom of Italy
- Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story...
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗:
- The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
- 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:
- So, what happened?
It's quite a long story actually...
Really? Don't worry about it then.
- So, what happened?
- The book tells the story of two roommates.
- A lie, fiction.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:lie
- You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?
- (US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.
- Synonyms: serial
- What will she do without being able to watch her stories?
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
- He stood on the doorstep for a minute, listening for sounds inside the house — a radio, a TV tuned to one of the stories […]
- (obsolete) History.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC ↗:
- A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
- Synonyms: narrative
- What's the story with him?
- I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.
- The images it captured help tell a story of extreme loss: 25 percent of its ice and four of its 19 glaciers have disappeared since 1957.
- (social media, sometimes, capitalized) A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.
- (computing) Ellipsis of user story
- French: histoire, conte
- German: Erzählung, Geschichte
- Italian: racconto, storia, aneddoto, vicenda
- Portuguese: estória, história, conto
- Russian: расска́з
- Spanish: relato, cuento, crónica, historia
- Russian: исто́рия
story (stories, present participle storying; simple past and past participle storied)
- (transitive) To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene v]:
- How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
- It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.
- (ambitransitive, social media, sometimes, capitalized) To post a story chronological collection of pictures or short videos on an application or website.
Alternative form of what's the story
Interjection- (idiomatic, Ireland, Dublin)
, short for what's the story?
story (plural stories)
- (chiefly US, Philippines) Alternative spelling of storey.
- Our shop was on the fourth story of the building, so we had to install an elevator.
- 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC ↗:
- The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.
Story
Proper noun
- Surname.
- An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, Brown County.
- A ghost town in St. Clair County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Sioux County, Nebraska.
- A census-designated place in Sheridan County, Wyoming.
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