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noun

Story n. (pl. stories) (Written also storey) 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. Note: A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another; as, a story of nine or ten feet elevation. The spaces between floors are numbered in order, from below upward; as, the lower, second, or third story; a house of one story, of two stories, of five stories.

Story post (Arch.), a vertical post used to support a floor or superincumbent wall.

Story n.

A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record. "One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story." "Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive story." "The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story."

The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance.

A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story. (Colloq.)

verb

Story v. t. (past & past part. storied; pres. part. storying) To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story. "How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing." "It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Story" Quotes from Famous Books

... library where two students worked, and where from the windows one could see the tiled roofs of the university. Back to the world of dreams where dwelt that friendly host of story-book people, where only a few short weeks ago Friendship, too, with its winding shady streets and this same stately garden and the griffins, had belonged as truly as did the Forest where that other Rosalind, loveliest ...

— Mr. Pat's Little Girl - A Story of the Arden Foresters • Mary F. Leonard

... this important matter?" Senior Warden answers, "The method I would propose, would be to select a chief from the five orders of architecture upon whom we may confer the degree of I. B., and by his assistance fill the secret chamber of the third story." Most Puissant says, "I approve of your advice, and to convince you of my readiness to follow it, I appoint you and brothers Adoniram and Abda to carry the same into execution. Excellent Brothers, let Adoniram go into ...

— The Mysteries of Free Masonry - Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge • William Morgan

... sent for Jack, who told him all he knew. He seemed, by his remarks, to have some doubts of the truth of the story. ...

— Won from the Waves • W.H.G. Kingston

... at the house of Bethuel, they tried to kill him with cunning. They set poisoned food before him. Luckily, he refused to eat before he had discharged himself of his errand. While he was telling his story, it was ordained by God that the dish intended for him should come to stand in front of Bethuel, who ate of ...

— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg

... obviously disregards all the canons and unities and other things which every well-bred dramatist is bound to respect that his work is really unworthy of serious criticism (orthodox). Indeed he knows no more about the dramatic art than, according to his own story in "The Man of Destiny," Napoleon at Tavazzano knew of the Art of War. But both men were successes each in his way—the latter won victories and the former gained audiences, in the very teeth of the accepted theories of war and the theatre. ...

— Arms and the Man • George Bernard Shaw

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