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STORY
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Irregular inflected form: storied
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
Example:
what level is the office on?
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("story" is a kind of...):
construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "story"):
basement; cellar (the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage)
first floor; ground floor; ground level (the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building)
attic; garret; loft (floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage)
loft (floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space)
entresol; mezzanine; mezzanine floor (intermediate floor just above the ground floor)
Holonyms ("story" is a part of...):
building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
Example:
he writes stories for the magazines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("story" is a kind of...):
fiction (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)
Meronyms (parts of "story"):
climax; culmination (the decisive moment in a novel or play)
anticlimax; bathos (a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "story"):
plot (the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.)
parable ((New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message)
myth (a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people)
allegory; apologue; fable; parable (a short moral story (often with animal characters))
short story (a prose narrative shorter than a novel)
fable; legend (a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events)
love story; romance (a story dealing with love)
mystery; mystery story; whodunit (a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie)
adventure story; heroic tale (a story of an adventure)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A record or narrative description of past events
Example:
the story of exposure to lead
Synonyms:
account; chronicle; history; story
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("story" is a kind of...):
record (anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events)
Domain category:
history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "story"):
recital (a detailed account or description of something)
biography; life; life history; life story (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)
annals; chronological record (a chronological account of events in successive years)
historical document; historical paper; historical record (writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.))
case history (detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment)
etymology (a history of a word)
ancient history (a history of the ancient world)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A short account of the news
Example:
the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious
Synonyms:
account; news report; report; story; write up
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("story" is a kind of...):
news (information reported in a newspaper or news magazine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "story"):
exclusive; scoop (a news report that is reported first by one news organization)
urban legend (a story that appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in various forms and is usually false; contains elements of humor or horror and is popularly believed to be true)
communique; despatch; dispatch (an official report (usually sent in haste))
bulletin (a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast))
newsletter; newssheet (report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A trivial lie
Example:
how can I stop my child from telling stories?
Synonyms:
fib; story; tale; taradiddle; tarradiddle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("story" is a kind of...):
lie; prevarication (a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "story"):
cock-and-bull story; fairy story; fairy tale; fairytale; song and dance (an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse)
Sense 6
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
Example:
Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children
Synonyms:
narration; narrative; story; tale
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("story" is a kind of...):
content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "story"):
tearjerker (an excessively sentimental narrative)
tall tale (an improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story)
folk tale; folktale (a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk)
sob story; sob stuff (a sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy)
fairy story; fairy tale; fairytale (a story about fairies; told to amuse children)
nursery rhyme (a tale in rhymed verse for children)
Instance hyponyms:
Canterbury Tales (an uncompleted series of tales written after 1387 by Geoffrey Chaucer)
Context examples:
Why didn't you write that way in the story?
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"In 1989, we thought the crater was the end of the story," said Showalter.
(Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, NASA)
I seem to have heard some queer stories about him.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But genes tell only part of a biological story.
(Expanding Our Understanding of Genomics, NIH)
Lord Roxton went on with his story.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The story was not a long one, and when it was finished, he ventured to ask a few questions as a reward of merit.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that occurred.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The captain, a wise man, after many endeavours to catch me tripping in some part of my story, at last began to have a better opinion of my veracity.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Ah, I see you know my whole story.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You have no wish, then, to hear my story?” said she, at last.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
