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noun

Story n. (pl. stories) (Written also storey) 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. 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 n.

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." "Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive story." "The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story."

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.

A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story. (Colloq.)

verb

Story v. t. (past & past part. storied; pres. part. 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." "It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Story" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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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