Story

Noun

 * 1) An account of real or fictional events.
 * The book tells the story of two roommates.
 * 1) A lie.
 * You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?
 * 1) A floor or level of a building (mainly US - see storey).
 * Our shop was on the fourth story of the building &mdash; we had to install an elevator.
 * 1) *1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
 * The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.
 * 1) 🇺🇸 A soap opera.
 * What will she do without being able to watch her stories?
 * 1) (architecture) That part of a building between the level of one finished floor and the level of the next higher finished floor

Synonyms

 * tome
 * See lie
 * floor, level
 * soap opera, serial

Derived terms

 * Banbury story of a cock and a bull
 * bedtime story
 * chain story
 * cock-and-bull story
 * cover story
 * end of story
 * fish story
 * ghost story
 * horror story
 * just-so story
 * likely story
 * love story
 * my stories
 * shaggy-dog story


 * short short story
 * short story
 * sob story
 * storiation
 * story editor
 * storybook
 * storyline
 * story of my life
 * storyteller
 * storytelling
 * success story
 * tall story
 * to cut a long story short
 * war story

Adjectives for Story
pathetic; candid; stirring; mouthed; chivalrous; complicated; wonderful; plausible; ludicrous; priceless; naive; moving; roaring; sublime; unexpurgated; eye-opening; authentic; detailed; graphic; specious; woeful; improbable; harrowing; idyllic; rambling; poignant; outrageous; self-told; true; ill-natured; gripping; unpublished; painful; legendary; rudimentary; mystery; absorbing; stupendous; incredible; cruel; mournful; inimitable; apocryphal; unembellished; shameful;   threadbare;    circumstantial; speaking; typical; thrilling; perishing; revealing; hackneyed; dubious; ribald; conflicting; calumniating; unfinished; veritable; dismal; squalid; wondrous; well-known; age-worn; amusing; time-honored; unbelievable; priceless; adventure; self-effacing; blood-curdling; delectable; inspiring; pungent; fictitious; witty; racy; rapid; complete; amorous; laborious; heroic; commonplace; smooth-flowing; sea; fruitful; in¬nocent; eloquent; darling;  appropriate; absurd; perpetual; horrid; abominable; unconnected; tragic; curious;  edifying; lustful; copious; spicy; readable; ridiculous; realistic; uppermost; lame; finest; romantic; monotonous;  facetious;  sad; thought-provoking;  sordid;   slanderous; eventful;  melodramatic;   uninterrupted; homely; accredited; grim; tender; didactic: unbiased; tribal; mess-worn; disastrous; well-told; instructive; fascinating; upper; shallow; garbled; delicious; hall-marked;unreticent; heinous; elaborate; sensational; exquisite; accepted; harrowing; alive; complete; distinguished; deep; entertaining horror;  full-blooded;   intimate;   inside light; swift-moving; top-notch; veracious well-written; well-paced.

Verbs for Story
accumulate—s; belittle—; bolster—; cast— circulate—; climax—; conceive—; concoct —; construct—; dash off—; criticize—; de¬vour—; discredit—; dominate—; dramatize —; dwarf—; embroider—; enact—; fabri¬cate—; fashion—; forge—; hail—; inter¬pret—; invent—; issue—; load—; manu¬facture—s; narrate—; overload—; paint—; peg away at—; pour out—; present—; pe¬ruse—; question—; recapitulate—; reel off —; reiterate—; relate—; release—; relish —; scoff at—; scotch—; spin—; thread—; transcend—; turn out—; verify—; wade thru—; weave—; worm out—; —centers; —confirms; —consoles; —corroborates; — degenerates; —denounces; —depends; — elicits; —emanates; —embellishes; —en¬grosses; —enhances; —etches; —fascinates; —flows; —hurtles; —implicates; —inspires; —lacks; —links; —marches; —moves; — originates; —pictures; —pieces; —plunges; —progresses; —recounts; —regales; — reigns; —revolves; —rounds off; —shapes; —skirts; —slanders; —slants; —survives; —throws; —tingles; —touches; —travels; —unfolds.

Thesaurus
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

Alternative forms

 * storie, storey

Etymology
From estorie:, from  historia:, from  ἱστορία:. Compare history: and storey:.

Translations

 * Anglo-Norman:, ,
 * Arabic: قصة,
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dena'ina:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: lugu
 * Ewe: ŋutinya
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Old French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: कहानी
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: rakonto, naraco
 * Interlingua: conto
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese:, , 話し,
 * Korean: 이야기
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Malay: cerita
 * Malayalam: കഥ (katha)
 * Maltese: storja, rakkont
 * Marathi: गोष्ट (gosht)
 * Navajo:
 * Persian: داستان
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, história, conto
 * Russian: рассказ, повесть, история
 * Scottish Gaelic:, , naidheachd
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: прича
 * Roman: priča, raskaz, povest
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, berättelse
 * Telugu: కత (kata), కథ (katha)
 * Turkmen: hekaýa
 * Ukrainian: оповідь
 * Urdu: کہانی
 * West Frisian: sêge


 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: korrus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: קומה
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 階 (kai)
 * Korean: 층 (cheung)
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: sular
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: etaj
 * Russian: этаж (etáž)
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: спрат
 * Roman: sprat
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: అంతస్తు (aMtastu)
 * Ukrainian: поверх (póverχ)

Anagrams

 * ryots
 * tyros