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- 1 Used as a greeting, short for what's the story? Ireland, idiomatic
"*Any non-Irish person should be aware that it is not necessary to take the question literally i.e. one shouldn't start to explain your life story when greeted with 'What's the story?' rather they should respond in kind e.g. Greeting: 'What's the story?' Response: 'What's the story?' There are several variations on the theme, the most popular being 'What's the story, bud?' or the pithy : 'Story, bud?' or the pithier still 'Story?'"
- 1 A surname.
- 2 An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States.
- 3 An unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, Brown County, Indiana.
- 4 A ghost town in St. Clair County, Missouri.
- 5 An unincorporated community in Sioux County, Nebraska.
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- 6 A census-designated place in Sheridan County, Wyoming.
- 1 An account of real or fictional events.
"The book tells the story of two roommates."
- 2 Alternative spelling of storey. Philippines, US, alt-of, alternative
"Our shop was on the fourth story of the building, so we had to install an elevator."
- 3 a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale wordnet
- 4 A lie, fiction.
"You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?"
- 5 a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events wordnet
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- 6 A soap opera. US, colloquial
"What will she do without being able to watch her stories?"
- 7 a record or narrative description of past events wordnet
- 8 History. obsolete
"[…] 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."
- 9 a short account of the news wordnet
- 10 A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
"What's the story with him?"
- 11 a trivial lie wordnet
- 12 A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period. capitalized, sometimes
"Worshippers in Mecca are streaming their stories live on Snapchat, opening up the Saudi city to non-Muslims online."
- 13 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 wordnet
- 14 Ellipsis of user story. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 1 To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about. transitive
"How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing."
- 2 To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website. ambitransitive, capitalized, sometimes
"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."
Etymology
From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis, from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ (hĭstorĭ́ā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.
From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis, from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ (hĭstorĭ́ā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.
Alternative form of what's the story (“how are you?”)
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