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say it: STAW-ree
story is a noun meaning "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". It carries 6 recorded senses.
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”
a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
“he writes stories for the magazines”
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”
history
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”
a trivial lie
“he told a fib about eating his spinach”
“how can I stop my child from telling stories?”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for story come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.