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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
story
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cover story (=the main story on the front of a newspaper or magazine)
▪ Last month’s cover story was entitled ‘Your Child’s Brain’.
a love song/story
▪ a tragic love story
a newspaper article/report/story
▪ I read quite an interesting newspaper report on the war.
a sad story/song/film
▪ He had listened patiently to his client’s sad story about her awful life.
a spy story/novel/movie etc
▪ John Le Carré is famous for writing spy stories.
▪ one of the most exciting spy movies of all time
a story spreads (also a rumour spreads British English), a rumor spreads American English
▪ It was the sort of story that would spread like wildfire.
an amusing story/anecdote/incident etc
▪ The book is full of amusing stories about his childhood.
back story
▪ The back story of why she hates her father is a bit too contrived.
biblical story/text/reference
▪ the biblical story of Noah
compelling story
▪ His life makes a compelling story.
cover story
credible explanation/story/account etc
▪ He was unable to give a credible explanation for his behaviour.
▪ Her excuse was barely credible.
filthy language/story/joke etc
funny story/joke/film etc
▪ Do you remember any funny stories about work?
ghost story
hard-luck story
horror story
▪ horror stories about patients being given the wrong drugs
lead story
life story
▪ She insisted on telling me her whole life story.
moving account/story etc
▪ a moving account of his childhood in Ireland
scare story
▪ Despite the scare stories in the media, no jobs will be lost at the factory.
shaggy dog story
short story
sob story
▪ a sob story about how she lost all her money
sordid business/affair/story etc
▪ The whole sordid affair came out in the press.
▪ She discovered the truth about his sordid past.
▪ I want to hear all the sordid details!
spread a story (also spread a rumour British English), spread a rumor American English
▪ When Brown’s hotel burned down, Clark spread the rumor that Forsyth was to blame.
story line
▪ The play had a strong story line.
suspense novel/story/movie etc (=one which is exciting because you do not know what will happen next)
tell a story/tale
▪ He then told the story of how he was injured while riding his motorcycle.
telling...life story
▪ She insisted on telling me her whole life story.
the full story (=everything he knows about the matter)
▪ I don’t think he’s telling us the full story.
The story goes that
▪ The story goes that my grandfather saved his captain’s life in battle.
the whole story (=all the facts)
▪ I don’t believe she’s telling us the whole story .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ It means that if the engineer comes up with a different story they can use this to embarrass the plaintiff at trial.
▪ Last year, however, was a different story.
▪ But behind the scenes it was a different story.
▪ They then have a moment of near romance before wandering off into a different story.
▪ My second book, although it has used the same idea of telekinetic powers, has a completely different story line.
▪ Taxes on rented and business property are a different story.
▪ Between races it was a different story.
▪ Lee told a different story in her lawsuit.
full
▪ For the best-managed banks can only gain by telling a fuller story.
▪ But there was no use brooding on it: the full story would never be known now.
▪ We still do not know the full story of Brixton; therefore, we do not know the truth.
▪ Fifi tells us the full story of Manuel Gustavo.
▪ Read the full story in the January issue of eve.
▪ The full story of the dismissals was told to Fong by Margerine.
▪ They eventually lost that game although the 3-1 scoreline doesn't tell the full story of bad luck and missed chances.
▪ That is why some reporters will go to greater lengths to look good than to get the full story.
funny
▪ I had no doubts about his musicianship, his talent or his ability to tell a funny story funnily.
▪ The drowned man. Funny how that story stuck.
▪ He'd give us funny stories - the Colonel coming in the front door while Luke left through the back.
▪ Perhaps Old Abe has some funny story to tell appropriate to the occasion.
▪ Tonk and his Friends Pupils will love this funny story of a young robot called Tonk.
▪ He had told a funny story that had made her laugh.
▪ He told some quite funny stories.
▪ Now she has illustrated a second, equally funny story about the time the maiden Belinda is captured by a wicked knight.
good
▪ A second equally good story describes mopping up an oil spill at sea.
▪ I saw how it bothered him and I thought it would make a good story.
▪ Labour still believes that it has a better story about its own plans for improving public services than the Tories.
▪ Miss Dell writes a good story.
▪ I think it's a good story too.
▪ But the Bulldogs should have been one of the best stories of the first round of the tournament.
▪ For example it has a good story, exciting in parts, amusing in parts and with some memorably drawn characters.
▪ What is news depends on what makes a good story.
long
▪ But a long story was an indulgence.
▪ In exchange I told her long stories.
▪ So to cut a long story short, in the end I managed to drag myself away from this man.
▪ The longest story is so full of pathos that the joke lines elicit only sympathy, not laughter.
▪ To cut a long story short, they did rejoin us at lunch-time, De Gaulle no longer looking shit-scared so much as downright shifty.
▪ I hoped it would be a long story.
▪ For them the demand to draft or revise a long story would be wholly inappropriate.
▪ He launched out on a long story.
old
▪ It's always the same old story.
▪ We all love the old Chicago stories.
▪ A decision to lay off 10% of the work force tells the old story of the drone worker.
▪ One of the oldest stories, and to me one of the best, was about my great-grandfather, the musical postman.
▪ I dug my father's old short stories out from beneath the roll top desk and read them.
▪ The change sheds a bit of light on an old ghost story.
▪ It is the same old story.
▪ And, presto, a 400-year-#old story seems modern, yet still slightly exotic.
sad
▪ A moor hen's nest floating away on a swollen tyke told a sad story.
▪ That is the sad story Jim Carlton tells in his forthcoming book about Apple Computer.
▪ As he left, Lord Henry thought about this sad story.
▪ The result of this sad story is that we have 4, 000 ancient Samaritan manuscripts all over the world.
▪ It is one long sad story of complaining and discontent.
▪ Peter Cameron tells sad stories with tender grace and understatement, as if his work were composed of panels of watercolor.
▪ Eventually the Kiplings put Low Birk Hatt up for sale and there is a sad and curious story associated with this.
▪ He spoke for hours and hours, telling me the great and sad story of the Tom Morrises.
short
▪ F fable A short story in prose or verse which is written so that a moral may be learnt from it.
▪ Back in the United States he supported himself by doing construction work while trying to publish short stories and novels.
▪ They should read a selection of material that includes short stories, novels, plays and poems.
▪ She turned her hand to short stories, getting two published in the early 1990s.
▪ He has written several articles and short stories and is now working on a novel.
▪ Ask them to paraphrase a short story, and they may repeat it verbatim without making changes.
▪ She had some modest successes behind her with short stories.
▪ He was extremely prolific, writing novels, short stories, detective fiction set in Harlem.
true
▪ It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction.
▪ Choosing to fictionalize a true story gives her a lot of liberties, and she takes every last one.
▪ Presenter Michael Buerk had reconstructed the true story of how the man was rescued by helicopter after collapsing by a canal.
▪ The four girls lounge in their nightgowns and tell each other the true story of how their lives are going.
▪ He needs to know the true story.
▪ Rene Russo re-enacts the true story of Gertrude Lintz, a socialite who nurses an infant ape to robust health.
▪ This was not quite a true story, he admitted, just a joke to raise Secord's morale.
whole
▪ But this is not the whole story.
▪ I told them the whole story of my experiences as a teacher.
▪ But Lakoff's particular academic training can not be the whole story.
▪ Sam will tell you the whole story.
▪ Bulk cargoes were not the whole story.
▪ If there was, and that was the whole story, so be it.
▪ It is by no means the whole story, however.
▪ Given the whole story, Ed Woodsum would seem the natural politician, the sure vote getter.
■ NOUN
cover
▪ MI5 was then advised that Crabb had presumably drowned and was asked to help provide a suitable cover story.
▪ In 1984, she was the subject of a Time magazine cover story.
▪ It was the perfect cover story.
▪ When time magazine made her the subject of a cover story, she encouraged them to include a profile of me.
▪ Mrs Nowak and Taczek must have got to know most of the truth and stuck by the cover story.
▪ Consequently, most celebrity cover stories are pretty lame.
▪ Mineral exploration and leisure development were to be the cover story and they would do at a casual glance.
▪ The national news magazines have never granted her a cover story or a frill appreciation.
detective
▪ He also wonders how to open Gabriel's locket and where to find the 101 Detective stories.
▪ Elizabeth did not like detective stories, because some one was usually hanged at the end of them.
▪ But they can also be used to play the game that is the simple blueprint detective story.
▪ That the blueprint detective story at its most basic is not a story.
▪ That may sound silly, but readers of blueprint detective stories want pure detection.
▪ The Classical Blueprint Let's start with the classical detective story, sometimes called the old-fashioned detective story.
ghost
▪ It's a bit like telling ghost stories.
▪ The change sheds a bit of light on an old ghost story.
▪ They spent their long winters under a deep blanket of snow, singing and creating ghost stories.
▪ Huck asks for a ghost story, so Jim tells a story about a scary evening he spent with medical school cadavers.
▪ We were talking about death and exchanging gruesome ghost stories.
▪ Myths and ghost stories abound on any normal day.
▪ There are loads of familiar ghost stories.
▪ The ghost story may be in for revision too.
horror
▪ But the refugees' horror stories have not changed.
▪ There are so many horror stories about ESOPs that many men would just prefer to sign their money away.
▪ And still the horror stories go on.
▪ Some shoppers tell horror stories of plastic bags ripping apart as they carry a gallon jug of milk.
▪ I will refrain from horror stories of Burleigh's past, but I assure you, Corbett is right.
▪ She can tell the Holocaust horror stories now without bursting into tears.
▪ But it couldn't have come at a worse time, given that their volatile relationship has turned into a horror story.
▪ This true-life horror story coming out of Los Angeles a few years back became an instant media sensation.
life
▪ Sometimes their life stories are so unusual that truth is stranger than fiction.
▪ Cornell was the most autobiographical of artists, for ever relating his life story -- or lack of one -- in his work.
▪ This is the time to make up for the imprecision of the life story in Step 1.
▪ And I realized some songs were more important in paralleling my life story than I thought they were.
▪ That's why we should now make a start on reminding ourselves of the relevance of our own particular life story.
▪ Often families, like the patients, floundered in their efforts to adapt to new roles and changed life stories.
▪ InPart One the life stories are used only retrospectively, drawing on childhood memories of grandparents.
▪ His platform is his life story and his political career.
line
▪ But now they have gone, the story line has gone from strength to strength.
▪ Chapter books require that we and our children maintain our hold on the story line over the duration of the reading period.
▪ It can make a story line clearer, which is always an advantage.
▪ This simple story line was elaborated in the works of Hesiod, Aeschylus, Lucian, Ovid, and others.
▪ Trust remains the central story line.
▪ They write you better story lines, you work more episodes, get more attention.
▪ Indeed, one might wonder how the same basic story line would look if supplemented with those evaluative devices.
▪ The singer of popular song lyrics is a storyteller, and must communicate that story line in a personal, intimate way.
love
▪ As if in a corny love story, they found themselves in each other's arms.
▪ The narrative line wavers, its constant ebb and flow in political affairs and love story creating a sense of drift.
▪ She says she couldn't get involved with the love story.
▪ I see it as a story of community, a love story.
▪ And why was their love story so special?
▪ I love a good love story!
▪ Even by the industry's fickle standards, it was one of the shortest corporate love stories ever told.
▪ Not just any love story will do.
news
▪ Photography for general news stories News of the day-to-day happenings within the organisation can be communicated with much more interest by photography.
▪ At most major newspapers, publishers control opinion pages but leave decisions on news stories to editors.
▪ It was the news story of the century, after all.
▪ Rarely is any news story ever underplayed.
▪ She's shown us the label so we can recognize the packaged news story like it was a familiar soap powder.
▪ Anti-continents, news stories began calling them.
▪ Indeed late news stories can be added just moments before the final pages go off to the printers.
▪ But even I am a little bit curious as to what the top news stories are.
success
▪ Her business has become so famous that she felt its success story merited a corner display in her new museum.
▪ What a pity that the Opposition never tell us any success stories.
▪ Yoyo came home the next day with the success story of the assembly.
▪ Last year's success story, Business 2.0, was put up for sale last week.
▪ Or consider that some of the nations long heralded as family planning success stories have faltered on the road to re-placement fertility.
▪ Waterstone's was an unlikely success story of the 80s Thatcherite boom.
▪ Every success story in our business affirms these words.
■ VERB
hear
▪ I had heard the story before, along with another one reputedly originating from the same school.
▪ I personally heard this story from a fellow who heard it from the fellow it happened to.
▪ On hearing the story Lily had retired to bed with a headache leaving Stella to do the washing-up.
▪ As it got dark, rather than hear a scary bedtime story, Stuart wanted to walk in the woods with me.
▪ We are always glad to hear your stories, complaints and, of course, your enthusiastic praise.
▪ When he heard the story, he too began to cry as the wine collected around his feet.
▪ Once again, he left the pupils to superintend the luncheon and departed into the small parlour to hear their story.
▪ Children who had never heard a bedtime story and could not write their own names were crammed into classrooms by the dozens.
read
▪ Either have one person reading the story, or have different people reading different parts.
▪ You go upstairs and read Campbell a story before she goes to sleep.
▪ The best known of them was Dornford Yates, author of the now unreadable but once hugely read Berry and Co stories.
▪ People read the story and laughed.
▪ Her father was reading her the story, a long time ago.
▪ Analysis Have the students read their stories.
▪ You let me read that story you wrote for your class magazine: The Dragon's Mouth.
▪ Like anyone else, I read these stories and think, my, what heroic beasts.
tell
▪ The scrum-half's face told its own sorry story.
▪ At the time Jane Gilbert told these stories, they were of more than academic interest to her.
▪ Mr. Evans Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that that incredible figure does not tell the entire story?
▪ Tuttle and Garagiola visit major league clubhouses, telling the story, and they have achieved some results.
▪ I remember I would be told infantile stories, altogether appropriate to my infantile station.
▪ They tell stories that other people told them.
▪ But in spite of her enthusiasm, she never tumbled to the silent response which greeted her each time she told the story.
▪ That night at dinner Ken told me an awful story that his friend Greg had related in a letter.
write
▪ Gina was writing stories to be like Eleanor and also poetry, in imitation of Nigel's youthful ambitions.
▪ Perhaps Darnley's killers wrote these stories about Bothwell, before they killed Darnley.
▪ A reporter can only write one story at a time, which I liken to preparing just one dish at a time.
▪ He might also have had to write his story while lying on his back.
▪ After the students write their stories, they may want to share them in pairs or with the whole class.
▪ After all this rigmarole, they were to write a story to fit the words and pictures they had chosen.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a likely story
▪ It was not a likely story when she was due on stage in half an hour.
a rattling good yarn/story/read
▪ On one level, it is vastly entertaining and a rattling good read.
▪ We bet the Weatherfield Advertiser was a rattling good read under Ken's editorship.
cock and bull story
▪ He gave me a cock and bull story about the glass being smashed by hailstones.
detective story/novel etc
▪ But they can also be used to play the game that is the simple blueprint detective story.
▪ Elizabeth did not like detective stories, because some one was usually hanged at the end of them.
▪ I wanted to stay and read the latest Encyclopedia Brown detective story.
▪ It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story.
▪ Key elements are missing, primarily the complexities, surprises and textures of the detective stories.
▪ Their approach is informal and Physics of Stellar Evolution and Cosmology reads like a scientific detective story.
▪ This is the detective novel or the crime novel which makes its comments on life through humour rather than more directly.
▪ Your detective of the detective story, of course, went about seeking information.
end of (story)
▪ I'm not going to lend you any more money, end of story.
▪ Another good restaurant bites the dust -- end of story, right?
▪ Mark a ballot, lick a stamp: end of story.
▪ The fish will get their wheatgerm this autumn, end of story.
front-page news/article/story etc
▪ A front-page story about the Owens letter also was published.
▪ If even one of the cited companies faltered, even though it might later spring back, it became front-page news.
▪ If she knew that each of these unhappy events would be international front-page news she would be even more upset.
▪ It became the stuff of front-page news.
▪ It must have made front-page news.
▪ Soon, the desegregation of education became front-page news again and forced the Kennedy administration to respond with force.
▪ The media besiege him, and his views are front-page news.
▪ The war was no longer front-page news.
get hold of an idea/an impression/a story etc
inside information/the inside story etc
juicy gossip/details/stories etc
▪ Closed doors with Wilkinson usually meant that he had some especially juicy gossip or that he was fishing for information.
natural-born singer/story-teller etc
only half the story
▪ How could you side with them after hearing only half the story?
▪ But numbers on economic growth that look so wonderful for the emerging world tell only half the story.
▪ But that was only half the story of what was on General Kent's mind, and Harry would see that immediately.
▪ But this is only half the story.
▪ If only half the stories are true, this is some one who attracts trouble.
▪ Obviously, television has heightened awareness of the sport, but that is only half the story.
▪ Of course, what Dooley did at the water fountain was only half the story!
▪ The red notebook, of course, is only half the story, as any sensitive reader will understand.
spin a tale/story/yarn
▪ He could spin a yarn, and you had to take what he said with a pinch of salt.
▪ Joe was in top form, spinning stories, issuing pronunciamentos, dropping withering quips at every opportunity.
▪ She liked to spin yarn, sing, and dance.
stick to the/your story
▪ Bring in the police, the press, the king himself, and I shall stick to my story.
▪ He had stuck to his story, that they'd quarrelled at the dance and he had left early.
▪ You do not have to stick to the story line.
success story
▪ Richardson is one of the few success stories from the housing projects.
▪ Tonight, we're going to hear about another business success story from the North East.
▪ Well, the success story might never have happened if the entrepreneur had taken the advice of his bank.
▪ Any list of success stories is bound to omit some favourite voice.
▪ Despite the challenges, the nonprofit center and its staff have logged numerous success stories, said Glasser.
▪ For each service, add a few success stories from recent clients.
▪ Her success story resulted in a three page feature in Slimming Magazine last February.
▪ Her business has become so famous that she felt its success story merited a corner display in her new museum.
▪ One of lung cancer's success stories, he runs a support group for lung cancer patients and their families.
▪ Sikes shows us the success stories.
▪ Similar success stories can be found in other countries - for example, the aerospace exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
tall story/tale
▪ And yet all his life, his integrity warred with a flair for the theatrical, a fondness for tall tales.
▪ But there's still time to remember tall stories from previous superintendents.
▪ He wowed his colleagues after hours with tall tales.
▪ Horden's design blended innovation and massing A tall story or a tourdeforce?
▪ No Baron Munchausen would have dared to imprison his saga within the limits of a tall tale.
▪ With his feeling for tall stories he's a radio natural, though.
the same old story/excuse etc
▪ For those who claimed to have seen or heard it all before, racism was always the same old story.
▪ It's always the same old story.
▪ It seems to be the same old story.
▪ Oh, you know - it's the same old story.
▪ Sounds like the same old story really.
to cut a long story short
▪ I was a waitress in a bar and he was one of my customers, and that, to cut a long story short, is how we met.
unconfirmed report/story/rumour etc
▪ A U. S. Embassy official said he had unconfirmed reports of 300 dead.
▪ Horrors include the bombing of civilians and unconfirmed reports that napalm has been used.
▪ One unconfirmed report said Hamilton had intended to take the children hostage but that his plan went awry.
▪ Several commercial tests are available but there are few and unconfirmed reports of their efficacy.
▪ The whereabouts of Pastor Tokes remained unclear, amid unconfirmed reports that he had been murdered.
▪ There were unconfirmed reports that two activists were killed.
▪ We have an unconfirmed report of shots fired in the area of Brandenburg Gate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a book of short stories
▪ a fifth story apartment
▪ a headline-grabbing story
▪ All children love stories.
▪ Don't be frightened, Connie - it's only a story.
▪ Grandpa's always telling us stories about when he was a boy
▪ Have you been telling stories again?
▪ He looked like some giant from a fairy story.
▪ Sally, will you read us a story?
▪ The story doesn't get interesting till midway through.
▪ The story I read in the newspaper said they intend to close the theatre down.
▪ the story of dancer Alvin Ailey
▪ The film is based on a true story.
▪ The film was OK, but I didn't think the story was very realistic.
▪ The main story tonight is the earthquake in Albania.
▪ The movie is based on a true story.
▪ The movie tells the story of a young girl brought up in the Deep South in the 1930s.
▪ There are a lot of wild stories going around.
▪ There have been a lot of stories in the papers recently about contaminated food.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Besides, neither of us has enough money to gain entry to that story.
▪ But it is considerably worse than that, as the story quickly makes clear.
▪ Genesis and Deuteronomy tell the story in a style that will be accessible to any reader.
▪ He now had carte blanche to pursue any major story in town and to inject his strong opinions unabashedly into his writings.
▪ He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while, and we reconstructed the story.
▪ Markoff counters that his stories are accurate and fair.
▪ The best known of them was Dornford Yates, author of the now unreadable but once hugely read Berry and Co stories.
▪ The show-biz story of the decade has spawned the cinematic train wreck of 1996.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Story

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.

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.

Story

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.]

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.

Story post (Arch.), a vertical post used to support a floor or superincumbent wall.

Story

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.

    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.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
story

"connected account or narration of some happening," c.1200, originally "narrative of important events or celebrated persons of the past," from Old French estorie, estoire "story, chronicle, history," from Late Latin storia, shortened from Latin historia "history, account, tale, story" (see history). Meaning "recital of true events" first recorded late 14c.; sense of "narrative of fictitious events meant to entertain" is from c.1500. Not differentiated from history till 1500s. As a euphemism for "a lie" it dates from 1690s. Meaning "newspaper article" is from 1892. Story-line first attested 194

  1. That's another story "that requires different treatment" is attested from 1818. Story of my life "sad truth" first recorded 1938, from typical title of an autobiography.

story

"floor of a building," c.1400, from Anglo-Latin historia "floor of a building" (c.1200), also "picture," from Latin historia (see history). "Perhaps so called because the front of buildings in the Middle Ages often were decorated with rows of painted windows" [Barnhart].

Wiktionary
story

Etymology 1 alt. A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence. n. A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence. vb. To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about. Etymology 2

alt. 1 (lb en obsolete) A building or edifice. 2 (context chiefly US English) A floor or level of a building; a storey. n. 1 (lb en obsolete) A building or edifice. 2 (context chiefly US English) A floor or level of a building; a storey.

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WordNet
story

  1. n. 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, tale]

  2. a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"

  3. structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building; "what level is the office on?" [syn: floor, level, storey]

  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]

  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, 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, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]

  7. [also: storied]

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Gazetteer
Story, WY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Wyoming
Population (2000): 887
Housing Units (2000): 667
Land area (2000): 13.735136 sq. miles (35.573837 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.004788 sq. miles (0.012400 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 13.739924 sq. miles (35.586237 sq. km)
FIPS code: 73615
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 44.576978 N, 106.908109 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 82842
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Story, WY
Story
Story -- U.S. County in Iowa
Population (2000): 79981
Housing Units (2000): 30630
Land area (2000): 572.860085 sq. miles (1483.700745 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.837251 sq. miles (2.168471 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 573.697336 sq. miles (1485.869216 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.024190 N, 93.528718 W
Headwords:
Story
Story, IA
Story County
Story County, IA
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Wikipedia
Story

Story or stories may refer to:

  • Narrative
  • Story (surname)
  • A news article in print or broadcast journalism
  • A news event or topic
  • Story, or storey, a floor or level of a building
  • Stories, colloquial, American expression for soap operas
Story (Amorphis album)

Story: 10th Anniversary is a best of/ compilation by Finnish heavy metal band Amorphis. It was released in 2000 to commemorate the band's tenth anniversary.

Story (surname)

The surname Story (and its variant spelling Storey) originates from the Old Norse personal epithet “Stóri”, a derivative of “Storr” which means “large” or “big”. Even though it has been established that the root of the name is “Storr”, R.E.K. Rigbeye, in his book The Storey’s of Old claims that the suffix “ey[e]”, in the variant of Storey, is equivalent to the Icelandic “ig” and signifies “water”. According to him, “Storr” also denotes large in the sense of vast and rough. Rigbeye’s assumption therefore, is that “Storey” means "dweller by large and rough water". This may be explained by the Norse affinity to sea exploration, or the fact that the first Storys settled near the Lake District, and so the name might refer to the habitation which they chose. The earliest Norse settlement of which the first Storys would have been a part, took place in the 9th century north of Carlisle near the Solway Firth. This area then known as Strathclyde, was situated in the northwestern part of England, along the Scottish border. The earliest Storys would have settled on the English side of the border, most likely in the plains along the river Eden. The English or Anglo-Saxon population, among whom the Norse settled, spoke a similar language but pronounced many words in a different way. So, “Storr” among the Norse would have been enunciated as “Styr” in English.

Story (magazine)

Story was a magazine founded in 1931 by journalist-editor Whit Burnett and his first wife, Martha Foley, in Vienna, Austria. Showcasing short stories by new authors, 67 copies of the debut issue (April–May, 1931) were mimeographed in Vienna, and two years later, Story moved to New York City where Burnett and Foley created The Story Press in 1936.

By the late 1930s, the circulation of Story had climbed to 21,000 copies. Authors introduced in Story included Charles Bukowski, Erskine Caldwell, John Cheever, Junot Diaz, James T. Farrell, Joseph Heller, J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams and Richard Wright. Other authors in the pages of Story included Ludwig Bemelmans, Carson McCullers and William Saroyan. The magazine sponsored various awards (WPA, Armed Forces), and it held an annual college fiction contest.

Burnett's second wife, Hallie Southgate Burnett, began collaborating with him in 1942. During this period, Story published the early work of Truman Capote, John Knowles and Norman Mailer. Story was briefly published in book form during the early 1950s, returning to a magazine format in 1960. Due to a lack of funds, Story folded in 1967, but it maintained its reputation through the Story College Creative Awards, which Burnett directed from 1966 to 1971.

Story was revived in 1989-1999 as a quarterly published by F&W Publications.

Story (Eric Clapton album)

Story is a compilation album by Eric Clapton.

Story (TV programme)

Story is a TV3 current affairs show hosted by Duncan Garner and Heather du Plessis-Allan. It premiered on 10 August 2015, and airs at 7–7:30 pm, Monday–Thursday.

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Usage examples of "story".

FMT attracted the attention of the endocrine barons of Abraxas, and the whole story shifted into a higher gear.

Along the way Quisp jabbered ceaselessly, giving them an abridged story of his life.

Of the first, containing 8246 lines, an abridgement, with a prose connecting outline of the story, is given in this volume.

Mellis false-flags Banish with his bullshit mine story if there was a claymore mine on this mountain, it would be command-detonated and Abies would have lit it off with the rest of his fireworks then leads him up to the gun site and fucking drops him cold.

I replied, accepting her offer to correspond, and I told her the whole story of my adventures.

But all stories about Granny Aching had a bit of fairy tale about them.

CHAPTER IV I receive the minor orders from the patriarch of Venice--I get acquainted with Senator Malipiero, with Therese Imer, with the niece of the Curate, with Madame Orio, with Nanette and Marton, and with the Cavamacchia--I become a preacher--my adventure with Lucie at Pasean A rendezvous on the third story.

Coca-Cola story, telling of a pharmacological tycoon who invents a soft drink containing a mysterious, addictive stimulant.

Temple Luttrell adduced the story of the court-martial which had sat upon Lord George Germaine himself, after the battle of Minden, and made an insulting comparison between his conduct in that battle, and the conduct of the brave and enterprising Burgoyne.

So after you have read Metamorphosis, if you are curious about the story of Tasha Yar and Darryl Adin, referred to here, you may decide to seek out Survivors, available wherever Star Trek books are sold.

The king has heard some stories of this famous adventurer, which compel him to forbid him his Court.

Because wanting to convince anyone that there was no Amadis in the world or any of the adventuring knights who fill the histories, is the same as trying to persuade that person that the sun does not shine, ice is not cold, and the earth bears no crops, for what mind in the world can persuade another that the story of Princess Floripes and Guy de Bourgogne is not true, or the tale of Fierabras and the Bridge of Mantible, which occurred in the time of Charlemagne, and is as true as the fact that it is now day?

The way that extreme service works k best exemplified by a story that has been circulating in advertising and marketing circles for years.

The greatest copywriter in the world Jerry Della Femina, an advertising legend renowned for many noted campaigns, told a story that I will never forget.

Dragons, like Aerians, like Leontines, the color of their eyes told a story.