If your little brother begs you to tell him a story, he wants to hear a short, entertaining tale.
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.
Noun
structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building; "what level is the office on?"
Noun
a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
Noun
a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"
Noun
a short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "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"
Noun
a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
Noun
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; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney''s stories entertain adults as well as children"
v. t.
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.
n.
A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a
description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
n.
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.
n.
A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell
a story.
v. t.
To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a
story; to narrate or describe in story.
Story
Story
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.2.
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.
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.
A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.
Usage Examples
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.
Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
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Other Usage ExamplesA great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
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