story
English
Noun
(stories)
A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.
* Ed. Rev.
- Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story
* Sir W. Temple
- The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story .
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=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.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Travels and travails
, passage=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.}}
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A lie.
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(chiefly, US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , chapter I:
- The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.
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(US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.
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(obsolete) History.
* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
- 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.
A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
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Usage notes
* (soap opera) Popularized in the 1950s, when soap operas were often billed as “continuing stories”, the term “story” to describe a soap opera fell into disuse by the 21st century and is now used chiefly among older people and in rural areas. Other English-speaking countries used the term at its zenith as a “loaned” word from the United States.
Synonyms
* (account) tome
* (lie) See
* (floor) floor, level
* (soap opera) soap opera, serial
* narrative
Derived terms
* Banbury story of a cock and a bull
* bedtime story
* chain story
* cock-and-bull story
* cover story
* end of story
* fish story
* ghost story
* horror story
* just-so story
* likely story
* love story
* my stories
* shaggy-dog story
* short short story
* short story
* sob story
* storiation
* story editor
* storybook
* storyline
* story of my life
* storyteller
* storytelling
* success story
* tall story
* to cut a long story short
* war story
Verb
To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
* Shakespeare
- How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
* Bishop Wilkins
- It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.
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saga
English
Noun
(en noun )
An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=David Ornstein, work=BBC Sport
, title= Blackburn 0-4 Man City
, passage=Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Obama goes troll-hunting
, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
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