story

Plural: stories

Noun

• 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
• a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
• a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
• a record or narrative description of past events
  • "a history of France"
  • "the story of exposure to lead"
• a short account of the news
  • "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"
• a trivial lie
• An account of real or fictional events.
• A lie, fiction.
• A soap opera.
• History.
• A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
• 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.
• Ellipsis of user story.
• Alternative spelling of storey.

Verb

Verb Forms: storied, storying, stories

• To narrate or relate an account of events.
• To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
• To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website.

Intj

• Used as a greeting, short for what's the story?

Examples

• I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.
• Many players like to STORY their impressive wins and narrow escapes.
• Our shop was on the fourth story of the building, so we had to install an elevator.
• The book tells the story of two roommates.
• 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.
• What will she do without being able to watch her stories?
• What's the story with him?
• You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?

Synonyms

account, chronicle, fib, floor, history, level, narration, narrative, news report, report, storey, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle, write up, alternative fact, anti-fact, bluff, bollocks, bullshit, canard, cap, chin, clanker, contradiction, cram, disinformation, fabrication, falsehood, falsification, flam, goof, hoax, hummer, inveracity, inverity, jive, lie, mendacity, misinformation, mistruth, nonsense, nontruth, pork pie, porker, porky, prevarication, red flag, rubbish, serial, story, swack-up, tall tale, terminological inexactitude, tome, untruism, untruth, whopper, wisker, yanker, yed

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