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From Anglo-Norman estorie, from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historia, “history”). Compare history and storey (“floor of a building”).

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story (plural stories)

  1. An account of real or fictional events.
    The book tells the story of two roommates.
  2. A lie.
    You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?
  3. (chiefly US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.
    Our shop was on the fourth story of the building, so we had to install an elevator.
  4. (US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.
    What will she do without being able to watch her stories?
  5. (obsolete) History.
    • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
      […] 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.
  6. A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
    What's the story with him?
    I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.

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  • (soap opera): Popularized in the 1950s, when soap operas were often billed as "continuing stories," the term "story" to describe a soap opera fell into disuse by the 21st century and is now used chiefly among older people and in rural areas. Other English-speaking countries used the term at its zenith as a "loaned" word from the United States.

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account of events
lie — see lie
level of a building

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