Etymology : Middle English storie, from Old French estorie, from Latin historia; more at HISTORY
Pronunciation : stOr-E, stor-
Function : noun
Date : 13th century
1. true or fictional account of some occurrence; short work of fiction; plot; news report; joke, anecdote; lie, fib; floor, level in a building. cock and bull story.
2. A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors.
3. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.
4. A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
5. 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.
6. A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.
7. To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story. a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines".
8. 1. A story is a description of imaginary people and events, which is written or told in order to entertain. I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits. a popular love story with a happy ending.
9. A story is a description of an event or something that happened to someone, especially a spoken description of it. The parents all shared interesting stories about their children Isak's story is typical of a child who has a specific learning disability.
10. The story of something is a description of all the important things that have happened to it since it began. the story of the women's movement in Ireland.
11. If someone invents a story, they give a false explanation or account of something. He invented some story about a cousin. = tale, yarn.
12. A news story is a piece of news in a newspaper or in a news broadcast. Those are some of the top stories in the news They'll do anything for a story. front-page news stories.
13. see:
storey see -storey see also cock-and-bull story, short story, sob story, success story, tall story.
14. In British English, you use to cut a long story short to indicate that you are going to state the final result of an event and not give any more details. In American English, you say to make a long story short. To cut a long story short, I ended up as managing director.
15. You use a different story to refer to a situation, usually a bad one, which exists in one set of circumstances when you have mentioned that it does not exist in another set of circumstances. Where Marcella lives, the rents are fairly cheap, but a little further north it's a different story.
16. If you say it's the same old story or it's the old story, you mean that something unpleasant or undesirable seems to happen again and again. It's the same old story. They want one person to do three people's jobs.
17. If you say that something is only part of the story or is not the whole story, you mean that the explanation or information given is not enough for a situation to be fully understood. This may be true but it is only part of the story Jane goes to great lengths to explain that this is not the whole story.
18. If someone tells you their side of the story, they tell you why they behaved in a particular way and why they think they were right, when other people think that person behaved wrongly. He had already made up his mind before even hearing her side of the story. story singing detective story horror story mystery story short story Story Joseph.
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