story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈstɔ.ɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: stories
form: storie
Etymology: From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis, from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ (hĭstorĭ́ā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.
Senses: examples: text: The book tells the story of two roommates.
text: ...it must be exploded for fabulous, with other relics of ancient story...
ref: 1673, William Temple, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland:
text: 1861 June, Edinburgh Review, The Kingdom of Italy
Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story...
text: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: So, what happened?
It's quite a long story actually...
Really? Don't worry about it then.
ref: 2006 February 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:
text: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
synonyms: tome
glosses: An account of real or fictional events.
examples: text: You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?
synonyms: word: alternative fact
word: anti-fact
word: invention
word: bluff
word: bollocks
word: bullshit
word: canard
word: cap
word: chin
word: clanker
word: contradiction
word: cram
word: disinformation
word: fabrication
word: falsehood
word: falsification
word: fib
word: flam
word: goof
word: hoax
word: hummer
word: inveracity
word: inverity
word: jive
word: lie
word: mendacity
word: misinformation
word: mistruth
word: nonsense
word: nontruth
word: pork pie
word: porker
word: porky
word: prevarication
word: red flag
word: rubbish
word: story
word: swack-up
word: tall tale
word: terminological inexactitude
word: untruism
word: untruth
word: whopper
word: wisker
word: yanker
word: yed
glosses: A lie, fiction.
examples: text: What will she do without being able to watch her stories?
text: He stood on the doorstep for a minute, listening for sounds inside the house — a radio, a TV tuned to one of the stories […]
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
synonyms: serial
qualifier: usually pluralized
glosses: A soap opera.
examples: text: […] who is so unread or so uncatechis'd in story, that hath not heard of many sects refusing books as a hindrance, and preserving their doctrine unmixt for many ages, only by unwritt'n traditions.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: History.
examples: text: What's the story with him?
text: I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.
text: The images it captured help tell a story of extreme loss: 25 percent of its ice and four of its 19 glaciers have disappeared since 1957.
synonyms: narrative
glosses: A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
examples: text: Worshippers in Mecca are streaming their stories live on Snapchat, opening up the Saudi city to non-Muslims online.
ref: 2015 July 14, Aisha Gani, “Mecca worshippers stream their stories live on Snapchat”, in The Guardian:
text: People can make stories public or private, and can choose if they want only a subsection of their followers to view them.
ref: 2016 August 2, Mike Isaac, “Instagram Takes a Page From Snapchat, and Takes Aim at It, Too”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: I have come across a few (OK, two) Stories that have made me laugh. And when that happens, the medium frustrates even more with its fleetingness. But here’s hoping the Instagram Stories on my feed improve as time goes by. The End.
ref: 2016 August 12, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Instagram Stories: who cares about your commute or cleansing routine?”, in The Guardian:
text: While it might seem harmless to sneak the occasional peek at their Story or see what they’ve been watching on Netflix, Fortin says you’re leaving yourself open to “potentially stressful situations that may come at a time when you're gaining momentum in your progress.” Think about it—if their number isn’t blocked, you’ll jump at each noti wondering if it’s them.
ref: 2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, in Cosmopolitan:
qualifier: social media
glosses: A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of user story.
Derived terms: another story
anti-story
A-story
A story
back-story
back story
Banbury story
Banbury story of a cock and a bull
Banbury story of a cock and bull
bedtime story
break the story
B-story
B story
campfire story
chain story
change one's story
Cinderella story
cock-and-bull story
color story
colour story
cool story bro
cover story
different story
dope story
end of story
fairy story
feature story
fish story
folk story
frame story
get 'em story
ghost story
greatest story ever told
half the story
hard-luck story
horror story
impossible story
inside story
Insta story
Insta-story
just-so story
life story
likely story
long story
long story short
love story
made-to-order story
moral of the story
multi-story
nonstory
non-story
origin story
pourquoi story
round-robin story
same old story
scare story
scatter-story
sea story
second-story man
self-story
shaggy-dog story
shaggy dog story
shaggy God story
short-short story
short short story
short story
single story
sob story
storiation
story arc
story beat
storybook
story editor
storyline
story line
story of my life
story of one's life
story-poem
storyteller
storytelling
success story
talk story
tall story
tell a story
tell its own story
tell story
tell-a-story
there are two sides to every story
the story goes
to cut a long story short
total story time
upper story
user story
war story