• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈstɔː.ɹi/

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• (US)IPA^(key):/ˈstɔ.ɹi/

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• Rhymes:-ɔːɹi

FromMiddle Englishstorie,storye, fromAnglo-Normanestorie byaphesis. The Anglo-Norman word itself comes fromLatinhistoria, a borrowing fromAncient Greekἱστορίᾱ(historíā,“learning through research”).Doublet ofhistory andstorey.

• storie(obsolete)

story (pluralstories)

1. Anaccount ofreal orfictionalevents.

   Synonym:tome

   • 1673,William Temple,An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland:

     ...it must be exploded for fabulous, with other relics of ancientstory...

   • June 1861,Edinburgh Review,The Kingdom of Italy

     Venice, with its unique city and its impressivestory...

   • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter I, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:

     Thestories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

   • 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan,The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:

     So, what happened?
     It's quite a longstory actually...
     Really? Don't worry about it then.

   • 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8842, page55:

     Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-lifestory of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

   The book tells thestory of two roommates.

2. Alie,fiction.

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:lie

   You’ve been tellingstories again, haven’t you?

3. (US,colloquial, usually pluralized) Asoap opera.

   Synonym:serial

   What will she do without being able to watch herstories?

   • 1991, Stephen King,Needful Things:

     He stood on the doorstep for a minute, listening for sounds inside the house — a radio, a TV tuned to one of thestories[…]

4. (obsolete)History.
   • 1644,John Milton,Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London:[s.n.],→OCLC:

     […] who is sounread or so uncatechis'd instory, that hath not heard of many sects refusing books as ahindrance, and preserving their doctrine unmixt for many ages, only by unwritt'n traditions.

5. A sequence of events, or asituation, such as might be related in an account.

   Synonym:narrative

   What's thestory with him?

   I tried it again; samestory, no error message, nothing happened.

   The images it captured help tell astory of extreme loss: 25 percent of its ice and four of its 19 glaciers have disappeared since 1957.

6. (social media, sometimescapitalized) Achronological collection ofpictures or shortvideos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.
   • 2015 July 14, Aisha Gani, “Mecca worshippers stream their stories live on Snapchat”, inThe Guardian‎^[2]:

     Worshippers in Mecca are streaming theirstories live on Snapchat, opening up the Saudi city to non-Muslims online.

   • 2016 August 2, Mike Isaac, “Instagram Takes a Page From Snapchat, and Takes Aim at It, Too”, inThe New York Times‎^[3],→ISSN:

     People can makestories public or private, and can choose if they want only a subsection of their followers to view them.

   • 2016 August 12, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Instagram Stories: who cares about your commute or cleansing routine?”, inThe Guardian‎^[4]:

     I have come across a few (OK, two)Stories that have made me laugh. And when that happens, the medium frustrates even more with its fleetingness. But here’s hoping the InstagramStories on my feed improve as time goes by. The End.

   • 2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, inCosmopolitan‎^[5]:

     While it might seem harmless to sneak the occasional peek at theirStory or see what they’ve been watching on Netflix, Fortin says you’re leaving yourself open to “potentially stressful situations that may come at a time when you're gaining momentum in your progress.” Think about it—if their number isn’t blocked, you’ll jump at eachnoti wondering if it’s them.

7. (computing)Ellipsis ofuser story.

• (soap opera): Popularized in the 1950s, whensoap operas were often billed as "continuingstories", the term "story" to describe a soap opera fell into disuse by the 21stcentury and is now usedchiefly among older people and inrural areas. Other English-speakingcountries used the term at itszenith as a "loaned" word from the United States.

• Sranan Tongo:tori
  • Aukan:toli
  • → Dutch:tori
• → Welsh:stori
• → Persian:استوری(estori)
• → Portuguese:estória

story (third-person singular simple presentstories,present participlestorying,simple past and past participlestoried)

1. (transitive) Totell as a story; torelate ornarrate about.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene v]:

     How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather thanstory him in his own hearing.

   • 1648,John Wilkins,Mathematical Magick:

     It isstoried of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.

   • 2004 January 10, Galen Strawson, “Review: Making Stories by Jerome Bruner”, inThe Guardian‎^[6]:

     The further claim is that we create or invent the self specifically by “writing” and “storying” it.

2. (ambitransitive,social media, sometimescapitalized) To post astory(chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on anapplication orwebsite.
   • 2018 February 12, Josh Duboff, “Reese Witherspoon Is Natalie Portman’s Instagram Guru”, inVanity Fair‎^[7]:

     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 andstorying.

   • 2019 June 24, Christian Allaire, “Jennifer Aniston, We Beg You, Get on Instagram”, inVogue‎^[8]:

     I hereby argue that the only thing that would make these miniFriends reunions truly complete would be contributions from Aniston herself, who decidedly does not have an Instagram page. Imagine the content possibilities: Aniston looking flawless and chic by the pool; AnistonStorying herself shopping at Gelson’s;[…]

Alternative form ofwhat's the story(“how are you?”)^[1]

story

1. (idiomatic,Ireland,Dublin)Used as a greeting, short forwhat's the story?
   • 2012, Colin Murphy, Donal O'Dea, “18 - Saying 'What's the story?'”, inMore Stuff Irish People Love‎^[9],2017 edition, The O'Brien Press Ltd,→ISBN:

     *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?'

• what's the story
• what's the story, bud
• story, bud

story (pluralstories)

1. (chieflyUS,Philippines)Alternative spelling ofstorey.

   Our shop was on the fourthstory of the building, so we had to install an elevator.

   • 1900,Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, inThe House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.:Houghton, Mifflin and Company […],→OCLC:

     The lowerstory of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.

   • 1994,David K. Jordan, “The Popular Practice of Religion”, inCultural Change in Postwar Taiwan‎^[10],Westview Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page139:

     An astonishing proportion of village people had replaced their old houses with new ones built of better materials, often twostories high.

   • 2016, Xiaobing Li, “Art and Architecture”, inModern China‎^[11],→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page292:

     The Wooden Pagoda in Ying County of Shanxi, built 1,000 years ago, has ninestories and is 234 feet high.

   • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:story.

• ryots,stroy,tyros

Borrowed fromOld Frenchestoree, past participle ofestorer. Alternatively, the same word asstorie.

• IPA^(key):/ˈstɔriː(ə)/,/ˈstɔːriː(ə)/

story (pluralstoryes)(rare)

1. Alevel of a building.
2. Aline of paddles on a ship.

• English:story,storey

• “stōrī(e,n.(2).”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved2019-04-05.

FromOld Frenchestorie,estoire.

story

1. Alternative form ofstorie

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Southern Greater Poland)IPA^(key):/ˈstɔ.rɘ/

story

1. (Southern Greater Poland)Alternative form ofstary

story m pers

1. (Southern Greater Poland)Alternative form ofstary(“old man”)

• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “story”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, inZbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page31

Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishstory.

story n (pluralstory-uri)

1. story

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*starъ.

• IPA^(key):/ˈstɔ.rɪ/
• Rhymes:-ɔrɪ
• Syllabification:sto‧ry

story (comparativestarszy,superlativenostarszy,no derived adverb)

1. old(not young)

   Antonym:mlôdy

2. old(not new)

   Antonym:nôwy

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1912) “stǻu̯rï”, inSlovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[12] (in German), volume 2, Saint Petersburg:ОРЯС ИАН,page1096

Borrowed fromEnglishstory. First attested in 1940^[1].

story c

1. (colloquial) Astory(account of real or fictional events).

   Synonyms:berättelse,handling,historia,redogörelse

   • 2023, 46:41 from the start, inGränsbevakarna Sverige, season 2, episode 1, spoken by customs officer:

     Hansstory spricker ganska snabbt. Det finns inte mycket anka och kyckling i bilen, utan det är bara sprit.

     Hisstory unravels pretty quickly. There's not much duck and chicken in the car, it's all booze.

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

• story inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• st(abbreviation)

• IPA^(key):/s(ɯ).ˈto.ɾi/
• Hyphenation:story

story (definite accusativestoryiorstoryyi,pluralstoryler)

1. (social media)story