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Story

noun

(pl. stories)

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. Synonyms: narration, narrative, tale. "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"

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. Synonyms: floor, level, storey.

A record or narrative description of past events. Synonyms: account, chronicle, history. "He gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president" , "The story of exposure to lead"

A short account of the news. Synonyms: account, news report, report, write up. "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"

A trivial lie. Synonyms: fib, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle. "How can I stop my child from telling stories?"

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... here that account of the battle from this point, which I found some time since in a book containing the story of the fight in the ravine, sometimes ...

— The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley • James Otis

... left her Linda took her box of candy flowers and several of her finest roses and went to Katy's room. She found Katy in a big rocking chair, her feet on a hassock, reading a story in Everybody's home. When her door opened and she saw her young mistress framed in it she tossed the magazine aside and sprang to her feet, but Linda made her resume her seat. The girl shortened the stems of the roses and put them in a vase on ...

— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

... read many Roman Catholic teachers of catechism. I doubt whether all those teachers did for Christianity as much as an artist—Sienkiewicz —did with his charming story, "Quo Vadis?" He aroused so much interest, and so many sympathies even among the unbelievers; I am sure he converted to Christianity many more than any propaganda fides working on a half-political, half-scientific foundation. He put Christianity on a purely religious foundation, and ...

— The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) - Sermons On Subjects Suggested By The War, Third Series • Nikolaj Velimirovic

... Mallin, out to Beta Continent with orders to brand Rainsford's and Holloway's claims as a deliberate hoax. Then the Company intends to encourage the trapping of Fuzzies for their fur, in hopes that the whole species will be exterminated before anybody can get out from Terra to check on Rainsford's story." ...

— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper

... evening the incorrigible deserters were brought back, and, as I had threatened, were well flogged and chained, to secure them against further temptation. Bombay and Baraka had a picturesque story to relate of the capture; and, as I was in an exceedingly good humour, their services were rewarded with a ...

— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley

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