story
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/ˈstɔː.ɹi/
English
Definitions
noun
- A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.“The book tells the story of two roommates.”
- A lie, fiction.“You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?”
- (usually pluralized) A soap opera.“What will she do without being able to watch her stories?”
- History.
verb
- To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
noun
- A building; an edifice.
- A floor or level of a building or ship.“For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely.”
- A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.“The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey , not the double-storey .”
noun
- A building or edifice.
- A floor or level of a building; a storey.“Our shop was on the fourth story of the building, so we had to install an elevator.”
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Synonyms
tomelienarrativeserialsoap operafloorlevelstorynarrationrecitalwrite uphistoryreportchronicletalenews reportaccountfib