Definition of story

"story" in the noun sense

1. narrative, narration, story, tale

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"

2. story

a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events

"he writes stories for the magazines"

3. floor, level, storey, story

a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

"what level is the office on?"

4. history, account, chronicle, story

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"

5. report, news report, story, account, write up

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"

6. fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle

a trivial lie

"he told a fib about eating his spinach"

"how can I stop my child from telling stories?"

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Quotations for story

Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong
Which ought not to be true. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

You tell your story to a deaf man.

Graves they say are warmed by glory;
Foolish words and empty story. [ Heine ]

Caution is the lower story of prudence. [ Carlyle ]

An ill style is better than a lewd story. [ Proverb ]

It is an old story, yet remains ever new. [ Heinrich Heine ]

My pen is at the bottom of a page,
Which being finished, here the story ends;
'Tis to be wish'd it had been sooner done,
But stories somehow lengthen when begun. [ Byron ]

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of Beginnings, Story without End,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! [ Longfellow ]

Not once or twice in our rough island story,
The path of duty was the way to glory. [ Tennyson ]

That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. [ William Shakespeare ]

Long is the story of her wrongs, tedious the details. [ Virgil ]

You cannot judge of a man till you know his whole story. [ Proverb ]

It is the wolf in the story; talking of him, he appeared.

He that would right understand a man must read his whole story. [ Proverb ]

What region of the earth is not full of the story of our calamities? [ Virgil ]

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. [ Ouida ]

One of the marks of a mediocrity of intellect is to be given to story-telling. [ La Bruyère ]

To make a long story short (not to detain you by long digressions more than enough). [ Horace ]

He comes to you with a tale which holds children from play and old men from the chimney-corner. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Lessons of wisdom have never such power over us as when they are wrought into the heart through the groundwork of a story. [ Sterne ]

All the gazers on the skies read not in fair heaven's story expresser truth or truer glory than they might in her bright eyes. [ Ben Jonson ]

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. [ Horace ]

You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

On the Greek stage, a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day. [ Coleridge ]

A face that had a story to tell. How different are faces in this particular! Some of them speak not; they are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date. [ Longfellow ]

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction. [ Dryden ]

If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader. [ Thackeray ]

Many men want wealth, - not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath. [ Beecher ]

How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten. [ Washington Irving ]

A prolific source of obscurity is ambiguous arrangement. A member of the Savage Club, so runs the story, was one day standing on the steps of the club house. A messenger stopped and inquired: Does a gentleman belong to your club with one eye named Walker? I don't know, was the answer, what was the name of his other eye? [ Sir J. F. Stephen, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

In some exquisite critical hints on Eurythmy. Goethe remarks, that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story. And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. [ Joseph Addison ]

A clear running brook is the best teacher of style. There is a quick forward movement - but not measured or monotonous movement - while the water is so limpid that everything is seen through the crystal medium. It seems to me that the best style is that which reveals the writer's thoughts so easily, plainly, and musically that the reader becomes engrossed in the thought or story and forgets the writer. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]

The Christian cemetery is a memorial and a record. It is not a mere field in which the dead are stowed away unknown; it is a touching and beautiful history, written in family burial plots, in mounded graves, in sculptured and inscribed monuments. It tells the story of the past, - not of its institutions, or its wars, or its ideas, but of its individual lives, - of its men and women and children, and of its household. It is silent, but eloquent; it is common, but it is unique. We find no such history elsewhere; there are no records in all the wide world in which we can discover so much that is suggestive, so much that is pathetic and impressive. [ Joseph Anderson ]

Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know. He started telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought: This story isn't too long. But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, Uh-oh, this story is getting long. But then the story was over, and I said to myself: You know, that story wasn't too long after all. I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

story in Scrabble®

The word story is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters story:

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story in Words With Friends™

The word story is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters story:

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Words within the letters of story

2 letter words in story (4 words)

3 letter words in story (7 words)

4 letter words in story (6 words)

5 letter words in story (1 word)

Word Growth involving story

Shorter words in story

or

to

Longer words containing story

backstory

clerestory

consistory

history biohistory

history ethnohistory

history prehistory

history protohistory

multistory

shortstory

storyboard storyboarded

storyboard storyboarder storyboarders

storyboard storyboarding

storyboard storyboards

storybook storybooks

storying

storyline storylines

storymaker storymakers

storymaking

storymonger storymongers

storyteller storytellers

storytelling storytellings

substory

understory