story

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

stories

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

story

past (v2)

storied

past participle (v3)

storied

present participle

storying

3rd person singular

stories

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.An account of real or fictional events.

   • The book tells the story of two roommates.

2. 2.A lie, fiction.

   • You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?

3. 3.A soap opera.(colloquial)

   • What will she do without being able to watch her stories?

4. 4.A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

   • I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.
   • 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.
   • What's the story with him?

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.

   • It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.
   • How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
   • The further claim is that we create or invent the self specifically by “writing” and “storying” it.

2. 2.To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website.

   • But Portman, quite self-deprecating about her social-media savvy, says she . . isn’t quite fully at ease yet with the world of double-taps and geotags and storying.

Intj

Interjection

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A word or short phrase used to express a sudden emotion or reaction.

1. 1.Used as a greeting, short for what's the story?

Overall

Very common· #224

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Common

General reading & writing

Very common

Academic

Uncommon

Literature

Uncommon

Synonyms

• tale