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story

('st/oU/r/i/ )

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(noun.communication)

Synonym:
narration, narrative, tale

source: wordnet30
a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events(noun.communication)

source: wordnet30
a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale(noun.artifact)

Synonym:
floor, level, storey

source: wordnet30
a record or narrative description of past events(noun.communication)

Example:
A history of France.
The story of exposure to lead.

Synonym:
account, chronicle, history

source: wordnet30
a short account of the news(noun.communication)

Example:
The story was on the 11 o'clock news.

Synonym:
account, news report, report, write up

source: wordnet30
a trivial lie(noun.communication)

Synonym:
fib, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle

source: wordnet30
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)

source: webster1913
A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.(noun)

source: webster1913

To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.(verb)

source: webster1913

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