storyn.
/ˈstɔːri/, U.S. /ˈstɔri/ a. An oral or written narrative account of events that occurred or are believed to have occurred in the past; a narrative account accepted as true by virtue of great age or long tradition. Obsolete except as merged with sense 3b.In early use most frequently with reference to a narrative drawn from the Bible or a saint's life.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun]
historyeOE
story?c1225
storyingc1449
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 122 Meschal leoue sustren þeose storien [a1250 Nero storie] tellen eft ou. for ha weren to longe to writen ham here.
c1330 Horn Child 4 in J. Hall King Horn (1901) 179 Stories ȝe may lere Of our elders þat were Whilom in þis land.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 6002 Nou have I of this nyhtingale, Which erst was cleped Philomene, Told al..Wherof men mai the storie note.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 709 He was in chirche a noble Ecclesiaste Wel koude he rede a lesson or a Storie But alderbest he soong an Offertorie.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 6 As þe story of Noe beres witness.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 2243 Ȝit lestyth the venym of so longe ago That it enfectyth hym that wele be-holde The storye of Therius.
1536 T. Starkey Pref. Kynges Hyghnes f. 60 All menne that haue eyes, and consider the storye of the begynnyng of the churche.
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Northumberland f. xxviiv By that this was ended, I had found out the storie of Richard earle of Cambridge.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iii. iii. 687 Paulus Æmilius..hath a tragicall story of Chilpericus the first his death.
a1628 J. Preston Breast-plate of Faith (1631) 152 David had many great infirmities, as we see in the whole story, the whole relation of his life.
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 25 So they being sent forth by the holy Ghost, departed into Seleucia. This is the story, now let us make our best on't.
b. A work of history; a history book, a chronicle. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun] > a historical work
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historical1592
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4806 Now..lesteneþ a-noþer, what bi-tidde of þis tale as þis store telleþ.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 297 Herodotus, þe writer of stories [L. historiographus].
a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 4852 And as I fynde in hys story, He seygh come St George, the knyght, Upon a stede good and lyght.
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 3481 Generides his swarde toke in his hande, Claryet it hight, the store tellith me so.
1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. ii. 98 And yet in lawfull matters, not expressed in the Scriptures, I know not to whome we should resorte to know the vse and antiquitie of them, but to the Councels, stories, and doctors.
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xiii. 160 Ordericus Vitalis the Monke, in his Normane story saith.
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 386 Examples of this, we have both in Holy Writ, and also in other Stories.
1694 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 18) iii. 611 Records of this Nation, without which no Story of the Nation can be Written or Proved.
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 17 When I had done with antient History, I sat down to the best modern stories I could get, and read of distant nations.
c. As a mass noun. Historical writing or records; history as a branch of knowledge, or history as opposed to fiction. Also: the events recorded by historians. Obsolete except as merged with sense 3c.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > course of events > aggregate of human affairs
storya1382
history1654
society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [noun]
historyeOE
chronicle1303
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memoryc1425
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res gestae1587
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a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) ix. l. 59 We..of hym, not oneli prophecy but story, wrijten.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7038 In grece þan regned priamus, As ald stori telles vs.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 670 Þis is nouȝth romaunce of skof, Ac storye ymade of maistres wyse.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. l. 2374 The childre off Seth, in story ye mai see, Flouryng in vertu by long successiouns.
1568 Abp. M. Parker Let. 4 July in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 328 In story it is reported that the prince of the realm by right is not Dominus Hiberniæ, but Rex Hiberniæ.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 78 I will..shewe you out of Beda, and others, the content and stoarie of this Ile.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion xi. Illustr. 191 As Robert of Glocester, according to truth of Story hath it.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 19 Who is so unread or so uncatechis'd in story, that hath not heard of many sects refusing books as a hindrance.
1667 J. Dryden Let. to Sir R. Howard in Annus Mirabilis 1666 Pref. The destruction being so swift..as nothing can parallel in Story.
1692 M. Prior Ode Imitation Horace xii. 10 'Tis no Poet's Thought, no Flight of Youth, But solid Story, and severest Truth.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 93 Have we not any Instances in Story of some such-like Deportment practised by politer and more refined Nations?
1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 20 With every intention of vindicating Richard, he does but authenticate his crimes, by searching in other story for parallel instances of what he calls policy.
d. An event which occurred or is believed to have occurred in the past; a historical incident. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > course of events > historical incident
storya1425
a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 11 (MED) Þe nobilite of a cete stondeþ neþer in hiȝe toures nor in grete richesses, but in famouse storye of þe induellande.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 225 Euereither of these stories were doon eer eny lawe was ȝouun to the Iewis.
a. A pictorial representation of a historical or legendary subject; (hence) any work of art depicting human figures. Also as a mass noun. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > historical painting > a historical painting
storyc1400
history?1521
history piece1683
historic1830
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 7656 She led hym to chaumbres of nob[l]eys..Of Troye was þere-inne al þe story.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 139 In the sidis of the same ymage he made stories in ymagerie.
1533 Noble Coronacyon Quene Anne sig. iiiiv The standarde whiche was costly & sumptuously garnisshed with golde & asure with armes & stories.
1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. I.iiiiv The walles were raysed hye, And all engraued with Storyes fayre of costlye Imagrye.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. v. f. 76v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I As for our Churches themselues..all Images,..and monumentes of Idolatry, are remooued,..onely the storyes in glasse windowes excepted.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 548 In the walles whereof are engraven the stories of Christs passion and other things.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 96 I also call'd at Mr. Ducies, who has indeede a rare Collection of the best Masters, & one of the largest Stories of H. Holben.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 114 The Dining-roome..richly gilded, & painted with story by De Creete.
b. The subject of a painting, sculpture, or other work of art. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > subject
subject1614
story1657
study1779
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > a sculpture or carving > group or spec. subject
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Our Lady Piety1533
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1657 J. Davies tr. H. D'Urfé Astrea I. 196 Now let us consider the Story of this Picture [Fr. l'histoire de ce Tableau]: Look upon Mandrague in the midst of a Circle.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1666 (1955) III. 427 There are some Mezzo relievi as big as the life, & the storie is of the heathen Gods, Emblems, Compartiments, &c.
1715 J. Richardson Ess. Theory of Painting 47 I have a drawing of Rafaëlle..; the story is the descent of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. i. 15 The story is St. Peter delivered out of prison, the drawing and execution good, but the colouring in some parts faint.
3. † d. A person suitable to be the subject of a tale or anecdote; (hence) an object of amusement; a laughing stock. Obsolete.
a. A short account of an amusing, interesting, or telling incident, whether real or fictitious; an anecdote.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > [noun]
storya1425
anecdote1718
anecdota1721
nanny-goat1764
historiette1839
nancy story1858
lie1934
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 56 Ridiculum, a bourd or a storiie.
a1679 J. Ward Diary (1839) 129 I have heard a merrie storie of a certain scholar, that [etc.].
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lxvii. 305 The following story will serve to illustrate the character of this respectable family.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 222 A story in which native humour reigns Is often useful, always entertains.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 118 She told many a good story about Miss Crawley's illness in after days.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. cxi. 597 A deliberate and even slow delivery..has the advantage of making a story or a jest tell with more effect.
1937 Discovery Oct. 326/1 Without the conscious effort of the raconteur she manages to introduce many good stories and telling anecdotes.
1975 J. Lees-Milne Diary 18 Apr. in Through Wood & Dale (2001) 26 He is a jolly man, full of stories and fun, very astute, and talks well.
1993 Mother Jones May 16/2 Johnny used to tell a story about when he was a Texas Ranger, a captain in fact.
b. A narrative of imaginary or (less commonly) real events composed for the entertainment of the listener or reader; a (short) work of fiction; a tale.adventure story, bedtime story, detective story, fairy story, ghost-story, horror story, love story, mystery story, nursery story, sensation story, shaggy dog story, short story, spy story, vampire story, etc.: see the first element.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account
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historyc1230
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chroniclec1380
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rehearsal?a1439
report?a1439
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récit1915
narrative line1953
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 1 Storys to rede ar delitabill Suppos yat yai be nocht bot fabill.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 60 Sum singis, sum dances, sum tellis storyis.
1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxvii. 355 Now we haue Arcadia, and the Faery Queene, and Orlando Furioso, with such like frivolous stories.
?1606 M. Drayton Eglog vi, in Poemes sig. F Summers longst day shall sheepheards not suffice To sit and tell full storyes of thy prayse.
1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 34 With stories told of many a feat, How Faery Mab the junkets eat.
1692 S. Shaw Ποικιλοϕρόνησις 30 I doubt you would be laught at as bad as the Crow in the Story.
1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 133 Amours, Adventures, gallanting Stories.
1783 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2012) V. 280 Stories,..that for humour & comicality I think unequalled.
1829 Q. Rev. Jan. 9 We must leave Roland the Bold and Hildegunde the Fair..to such as can be pleased with romantic stories re-hashed by Dr. Granville.
1886 Morning Post 8 Sept. 2/7 It is a brilliant story, full of dramatic interest, which will be avidly read.
1907 E. A. Steiner Mediator xviii. 205 Please tell me a story, just a little story, and then I'll go to sleep.
1918 Texas Rev. Apr. 203 Emma..is the most objective of Miss Austen's stories.
1953 B. Russell (title) Satan in the Suburbs, and other stories.
2002 C. Slaughter Before Knife (2003) i. 29 She would read us a story at bedtime.
c. As a mass noun. Traditional, poetic, or romantic legend or history; folklore, myth, or legend belonging to a particular culture or period. Cf. sense 1c.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun]
story?1614
legendry1754
legend1765
folk-tale1891
folk-legend1909
pishogue1931
nancy story1974
?1614 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Odysses Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Singing their praises, in vnsilenc't storie.
1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iii. ix. 87 Triton's Shell-trumpet is famous in Poetical Story.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. x. 346 She almost fancied herself approaching a castle, such as is often celebrated in early story, where the knights look out from the battlements on some champion below.
1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible 40 They are sensible that the gospel miracles are so different, in all their circumstances, from those related in pagan story.
1807 W. Wordsworth Poems I. 22 Long as there are Violets, They will have a place in story.
1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 35 Old Martin Elliot of the Preakin-tower, noted in Border story and song.
1855 T. T. Lynch Rivulet lxxxii. 119 Breathe on us for the passing day The powers of ancient story.
1916 Boys' Life Apr. 8/1 Destined to live in story and song as long as America is inhabited by Americans.
1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 143 Early peoples whose existence, transmogrified in story, underlies the legends of the sith.
1991 R. Kuhns Tragedy 145 An imagination and ferocity as great as any in ancient story.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule > talked about, gazed or pointed at
gazing stock1535
pointing-stock1585
pointing mark1592
commonplacea1610
storya1616
outspeckle1802
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot > subject or theme
subject1575
storya1616
topos1948
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. iv. 29 Sir, make me not your storie . View more context for this quotation
1706 N. Rowe Ulysses iv. i. 49 'Till I had been a Story to Posterity.
1756 C. Smart tr. Horace Epistles i. xiii, in tr. Horace Wks. II. 281 Rather than..turn your paternal name of Asina into a jest, and make yourself a common story [L. et fabula fias].
e. figurative. A particular set of past or present circumstances, as revealed or indicated by an object, image, etc. Frequently in to tell a story (cf. every picture tells a story at picture n. Phrases 3).
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society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign
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1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster iii. 38 How that foolish men that reade the story of a womans face, And dyes beleeuing it is lost for euer.
1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. vi. 169 Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
1866 P. B. St. John Sailor Crusoe xliii. 61/2 But that which chiefly astonished me..was the ghastly story revealed by the sight which presented itself to my eyes.
1908 C. McLeod Heart of Stranger vi. 83 The hardness of his face told a story which every one wondered at in one so young.
1932 Boys' Life Sept. 39/2 The jagged hole told its own story and the sailor ran for a line.
2011 Daily Tel. 20 July 26/4 If those figures tell a story, it's one that's hardly new.
f. The series of incidents forming the basis of a novel, play, film, or other work; a plot, a storyline.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot
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action1668
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happy ending1748
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1679 T. Shadwell True Widow Ep. Ded. sig. A2v 'Tis the Opinion of the best Poets, that the Story of a Play ought to be carried on, by working up of Scenes naturally: by design, not accidents.
1715 T. Parnell Ess. Homer 38 in A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I While his Works were suffer'd to lie in an unconnected manner, the Chain of Story was not always perceiv'd, so that they lost much of their Force and Beauty by being read disorderly.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1772 I. 369 Johnson: Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted, that you would hang yourself.
1868 D. Cook Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Oct. 9/1 Sundry bursts of patriotic oratory..close the second act effectively, but otherwise help the story in no way.
1897 Strand Mag. Dec. 634/2 As the life of the body is the blood, so the life of the novel is the ‘story’.
1902 A. Dobson S. Richardson iv. 94 In Grandison..the movement of the story for the most part advances no more than a rocking-horse.
1981 Times 23 July 13/7 It has a good story, good music, and more dancing than Napoli.
1998 Daily Tel. 10 Mar. 5/5 There is no story, no development, no conclusion.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > drift, tenor, purport > [noun]
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intelliment?1562
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spirit1742
message1828
thrust1968
messaging1977
c1450 (c1350) Alexander & Dindimus (Bodl.) (1929) 609 Ȝe ne vndurstonde nouht þat stounde þe storie of þis wordus, Þat god hereþ no gome but for his goode dedus.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) Prol. l. 82 Þe story is of non estate þat stryuen with her lustus, But þo þat folwyn her flessh.
5.
a. An allegedly true account of events deemed worthy of narration.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun]
spellc888
talea1060
book-spellc1275
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narrationc1449
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1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 3 Yan suld storys yat suthfast wer..Hawe doubill plesance in heryng.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 8v Ouyd Þat feynit in his fablis & other fele stories.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iii. 8 Dighton and Forrest whom I did suborne, To do this ruthles peece of butcherie,..Wept like two children in their deaths sad stories . View more context for this quotation
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 462 I haue heard a story of an Englishman in Barbary which turned Moore.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 51 He with his consorted Eve The storie heard attentive. View more context for this quotation
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiii. 324 Intent he hears Penelope disclose A mournful story of domestic woes.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature III. xi. 308 I shall give this story in the simplicity of style of the old Translator of Pliny.
1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico III. vi. viii. 191 The whole story has the air of a fable, rather than of history!
1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret III. v. 143 He told the story of George's disappearance, and of his own doubts and fears.
1883 E. B. Tylor in Encycl. Brit. XV. 199/1 Among the magi the interpretation of dreams was practised, as appears from the story of the birth of Cyrus.
1920 G. W. James Singing through Life with God xxxiv. 375 The story of Joan of Arc has gone singing down the centuries.
1966 Theosophy June 228 A story tells that Abraham Lincoln once rejected an application for a position in government on the ground that he did not like the job-seeker's face.
2006 New Scientist 11 Nov. 61/2 There are plenty of stories of technicians who later became professors or group leaders.
b. With possessive adjective or genitive. A person's account of the events of his or her life or a part of it. Cf. life story n. at life n. Compounds 3, and also sense 8.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > types of biography > autobiography or memoirs
story1533
autography1661
memoirs1676
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self-biography1796
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curriculum vitae1902
biodata1947
vita1949
c.v.1971
1533 T. Elyot Of Knowl. Wise Man i. f. 2v Now wyll I recite the my storie.
1602 tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido v. i. sig. N3v But twilbe too Too troublesome to tell the storie of my life.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 164 She..bad me, if I had a friend that loued her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would wooe her. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 522 Thus have I told thee all my State, and brought My Storie to the sum of earthly bliss Which I enjoy. View more context for this quotation
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 15 Upon that I told him some of my Story; at the End of which he burst out with a strange kind of Passion.
1797 Anti-Jacobin 27 Nov. 15/2 As soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 196 ‘Ye maun gang up wi' me to the Lodge, Effie,’ said Jeanie, ‘and tell me a' your story.’
1894 B. Thomson S. Sea Yarns 81 And then she told him her whole story.
1925 W. Faulkner Let. 7 Feb. in Thinking of Home (1992) 182 He told me his story. His father, it seems, was a duke..and his older brother inherited the title.
1958 N. Levine Canada made Me ix. 186 He'll soon tell you his story; how he was a Bible-thumper down East.
1999 New Yorker 18 Oct. 59 (advt.) The Queen of Soul tells her story in an intimate and revealing biography.
c. Originally U.S. A report in a newspaper, magazine, or broadcast; an item of news. Also: an event or situation which is, or can be made, suitable for such a report.cover story, feature story, headline story, news story, smear story, wire story, etc.: see the first element.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > story
story1898
1898 Scribner's Mag. May 572 ‘Where's your story?’ asked the city editor. ‘There wasn't any story to write,’ replied the new reporter.
1942 Sphere 27 June 409/1 Each regional editor acquires stories from his own Embassy or exiled Government as well as sending out his own reporters for stories of special interest to his country.
1976 J. Crosby Snake (1977) xvii. 93 She was going to break the story to her zillion readers.
1988 Woman 13 Feb. 24/2 The papers are running stories about me being the prize in a catfight between the two girls.
2003 Washington Post 14 Mar. (Home ed.) c7/5 If Richard Perle having a private lunch in Marseilles with Adnan Khashoggi..isn't a story, I've been in the wrong business for 40 years.
2003 Irish Daily Mirror 19 July 25/2 He..denied he was the main source for the Today programme story on the sexed-up dossier.
6.
a. A groundless assertion; an unsubstantiated rumour.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > an invention, fiction, story
fablec1300
fantasy1362
feigning1388
invention?a1513
story?1531
finctionc1540
figment1577
fingure1593
fiction1599
knavigation1613
flam1632
gun1720
novel1764
fabrication1790
fudge1797
gag1805
myth1840
make-up1844
concoction1885
fictionalization1954
?1531 R. Barnes Supplic. Kinge Henrye VIII f. Clij He calleth yt a lantern and lyght yee and that vnto alle men, and yov calle yt but a story.
1646 J. Ricraft Funerall Elegy Earl of Essex (single sheet) Is valiant Essex dead? 'tis sure a story!
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing viii. 71 And it may be more than a Story, that Nero derived much of his cruelty from the Nurse that suckled him.
1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 376 Merchant letters are silent herein, so hoped to be a story.
1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. iii. 27 Tell 'em, the Church declines in Glory, They cry, they hope 'tis all a Story.
1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible 74 Is it a story, that our first parents fell from a paradisiacal state?
1829 Missionary Herald (Boston) Nov. 345/1 We sometimes believed the report, and sometimes not, saying to ourselves it is a mere story, put in circulation by their enemies.
1891 L. T. Meade Sweet Girl Graduate xi. 95 Please remember that the whole thing is conjecture from beginning to end, and don't go all over the place spreading stories and making mischief.
1919 State Service Apr. 4/2 The story persisted despite repeated assertions that the canal was available.
1998 D. M. McKale War by Revol. i. 9 Stories abounded that Wilhelm II would soon convert to Islam.
b. A statement or representation of the facts of a matter; a particular person's version of events.See also a likely story at likely adj. 2c(b).
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account > from a particular point of view
storya1616
society > communication > information > reporting > [noun] > a report > particular form
storya1616
version1788
minority report1833
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 233 The story then goes false, you threw it him Out of a Casement. View more context for this quotation
1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 28 Inventing and affirming detracting and most abusive speeches and stories.
1661 Prince Rupert Let. 4 Sept. in Hist. MSS Comm.: 11th Rep.: App. Pt. V (1887) 7 in Parl. Papers (C. 5060–IV) XLVIII. 1 The stori is this, the Elector Pallatin hath ben pleased to write to a Prive Consellor of this court [sc. Vienna] in these terms [etc.].
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 159 I kept constant to this story, not knowing any better way to conceal my self.
1700 N. Rous Let. 28 Jan. in Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. (1912) 9 184 I find Brother Dykes continues in his old story.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 210 Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge.
1833 C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1874) II. 340 He [sc. Lyndhurst] told me his story, which differs very little from that which Arbuthnot had told me at Downham.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi v. 126 A Chief..remarked that parties had come before, with as plausible a story as ours.
1905 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 July 223/3 Dr. Murray has a slightly different story [of the origin of pasquinade].
1922 Argosy-Allstory Weekly 15 Apr. 144/1 There had come to Blackhorse Peak a girl. The story was that she had come in search of health.
1952 Jet 15 May 8 [She] kept changing her story on how a Negro man had raped her.
1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting (1994) 165 Aw the time we spent gittin oor story straight n it takes the doss cunt two minutes tae blow it.
2004 I. Calder Untold Story xii. 243 We checked the guard out, and his story was for real.
7. colloquial.
a. A lie.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie > trivial
fib1611
story1648
flaw1725
fibbing1749
taradiddle1796
yed1808
1648 J. Knowles Modest Plea Private Mens Preaching ii. 21 Doe you thinke it not an evill to take up and divulge false reports of others? Or is it from your charitable credulity that you have followed Mr. Edwards in telling Stories?
a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives: H. Blount (1898) I. 110 Two young gentlemen that heard Sir H. tell this sham so gravely..told him they wonderd he was not ashamed to tell..storys as, &c.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 272 I believe, Woman, said she, thou tellest me a Story.
1770 J. Wesley Jrnl. 21 Mar. (1870) III. 373 You were always good children, and never told stories.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 304 The unfortunate little victim was accordingly led below, after receiving sundry thumps on the head from both his parents, for having the wickedness to tell a story.
1880 E. Lynn Linton Rebel of Family II. ix. 201 Now, Eva,..I know all about you, so do not begin to deny and tell stories.
1956 South Western Reporter (U.S.) 2nd Ser. 287 201/2 Your Honor, we are going to object to that criticism that certainly is not fair. He accused me of telling a story.
2006 R. O'Donnell Two for Trouble 87 If I find out you've told a story, well, you better tell me and we can ask the Lord to forgive you.
b. A liar. Chiefly in you story! Now rare (English regional in later use). N.E.D. (1917) remarks ‘in vulgar use, esp. among children’.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a liar > petty
storyteller1696
fibber1723
storier1835
story1847
fibster1848
fib1861
taradiddler1880
1847 A. S. Mayhew & H. Mayhew Greatest Plague of Life xii. 180 Oh! you wicked story, you!
1869 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 561 Saying, as the little girls in the streets do, ‘Oh, you story!’
1909 H. W. C. Newte Sparrows viii. 92 ‘Story! story!’ began Miss Impett, but was at once interrupted by pacific Miss Allen.
1939 Strand Mag. Dec. 125/1 ‘Oh, you story!’ Miss Thorn disliked to be called a liar, so she walked away.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 294/1 Story, a liar. Thoo's a reight story thoo is! Yer fancy yersen a bit if thoo expects ma ter believe that!
8. The series of past events connected with a particular person, country, institution, or thing, esp. when considered as a sequential narrative; the facts of the matter. Now frequently in what's the story? With use with a possessive adjective (as in quots. a1684, 1983) cf. sense 5b.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun] > events as subject of history
storya1684
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1676 (1955) IV. 97 The famous beauty & errant Lady, the Dutchesse of Mazarine (all the world knows her storie).
1711 J. Swift Conduct of Allies 65 The Prudence, Courage and Firmness of Her Majesty..would, if the Particulars were truly related, make a very shining Part in Her Story.
1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. II. 29 Several other kings at Babylon, with whose story we are entirely unacquainted.
1746 ‘F. de Biron’ tr. Adventures & Amours Marquis de Noailles I. 29 The Parties principally concerned thought it convenient to let the Public know the real story as I have here put it down.
1795 F. Reynolds Rage iii. ii. 49 Who is this child? Where does he come from? What's the story?
1878 B. Herford (title) The story of religion in England.
1885 L. Oliphant Sympneumata 135 The story of woman upon earth has been different from the beginning to that of man.
1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner i. 10 Many objects in the room had a story, had been in the daily use of hands long since vanished.
1910 J. McCabe Prehist. Man i. 14 If we take the entire story of the stratified rocks to extend to over 55 million years.
1920 J. Hay Melwood Myst. xix. 247 Smith and Wesson, forty-four; fired once; empty shell missing.—All right, Sco: what's the story?
1976 Boys' Life Oct. 14/2 We may not yet know the full story of why or how the birds make their trips.
1983 P. Marshall Reena & Other Stories 136 What's her story? How did she come by that white elephant of a house, for example?
2009 Daily Mail (Nexis) 24 Oct. The story behind the frock that earned Mrs Cameron such widespread praise..is rather more complicated.
9. Business. The commercial prospects or circumstances of a particular company, esp. as described by the organization itself as part of a marketing strategy.
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1984 Chief Executive Autumn 32/3 (caption) No annual report we've seen does a better job of communicating a company's story—its goals, its promises, its performance and its future.
1989 P. Lynch One Up on Wall St. 20 I did the customary research into the story... With the same confidence as the fireman who bought Tambrands, I recommended the stock.
1999 Financial Times 15 Oct. 50/5 New company broker Investec Henderson Crosthwaite has been talking the company story to fund managers.
2000 N.Y. Times 9 Apr. iii. 1/3 Investors'..flight to the stocks of profitable companies with solid stories.
2014 C. Salvato & G. Corbetta in L. Melin et al. SAGE Handbk. Family Business xv. 299/2 Significant investments..are allocated for communicating the company's story and conveying the uniqueness of its offering.
Phrases
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c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. vii. 73 Catoun kenneth men þus and þe clerke of þe stories.
P2. the whole story: the full account of a matter, all that there is to be said about a matter.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [noun] > true facts or circumstances
the soothc897
rightOE
trutha1382
the feat ofa1400
verity1422
the whole story1565
fact1578
the right way (also regionally gate) (of)a1628
bottom fact1864
where it's (he's, she's) at1903
inside1904
dinkum1916
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare iv. 235 The whole storie standeth thus: [etc.].
1668 W. Temple Let. 2 Mar. in Wks. (1731) II. 89 There is the whole Story; that you may see how much you are either biass'd, or mistaken in all the rest you say of it.
1787 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 194/2 Such simply..is the whole story, and such the authority on which it stands.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. iii. 45 I shall know the whole story one day, I suppose.
1919 Commerce & Finance 5 Feb. 180/2 ‘She's a mighty fine girl,’ Roth declared after he got the whole story.
1998 I. Rankin Hanging Garden (1999) xxx. 333 I don't think that's the whole story, Jack. I think he's under pressure from his partners.
P3. the story goes: it is told, reported, or rumoured.
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society > communication > information > rumour > it is rumoured [phrase]
the story goes1618
1618 E. Parr Plaine Expos. Epist. St. Paul to Romans (viii. 9) 45 A Certaine Yong man (as the story goes) hauing long liued in Lust and whorish company, trauelled, and was conuerted.
a1670 S. Collins Present State Russia (1671) 41 But as the story goes, she fail'd of her promise.
1745 W. Harris in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 4 Now the story goes that he [sc. the young Pretender] is in the Highlands.
1787 F. Grose Local Prov. in Provinc. Gloss. sig. Rvijv Some Wiltshire rusticks, as the story goes, seeing the figure of the moon in a pond, attempted to rake it out.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. xi. 165 It seems, that you've shot once too often, for the story goes that you've killed a buck.
1898 J. K. Fowler Rec. Old Times 114 The story goes that the following colloquy took place.
1916 Princeton Alumni Weekly 19 Apr. 650/3 So the story went; I will not vouch for its truth.
1966 P. Young Ernest Hemingway (rev. ed.) iii. 80 F. Scott Fitzgerald put him up to this ridiculing of Sherwood Anderson, or so the story goes.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 28 Oct. d6/2 Imperial stout was brewed especially, the story goes, to appeal to Russian royalty.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > misunderstand [phrase]
to take amissa1425
to walk wide in words1529
to have (also take, catch) the wrong pig by the ear (also tail)1536
to be out of the story1649
to be at cross-purposes1688
I beg your pardon1806
to lose track of1894
to get (someone) wrong1927
to speak past ——1952
to lose the thread1956
1649 R. Baron Apol. for Paris 62 Nor was his Herald Ovid out of the Story, when he thus blazed his Stile.
1667 Bp. J. Taylor 2nd Pt. Dissuasive from Popery i. xi. 255 They are all equally out of the story, and none of them well performs what he undertakes.
1778 Arminian Mag. 1 194 Alas, Sir, you are as much out of the Story now as ever.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > be or become infamous or notorious [verb (intransitive)] > cause a scandal
to make a story1653
1653 D. Osborne Lett. to Sir W. Temple (2002) 61 Hee has made a story with a new Mistresse, that is worth you knowing.
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the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > be in agreement [verb (intransitive)] > in an account
to be in the same story1677
to be all in one story1766
1677 E. C. tr. A. de La Roche-Guihen Asteria & Tamberlain ii. 154 He thought it prudence to see whether the Princess and Adanaxus would be found in the same story.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. iii. 87 I find all the world in the same story.
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 43 I find they are all in a story.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xvii. 281 They're all in one story, Mrs. Mann. That out-dacious Oliver has demoralized them all!
P7.
a. a different (also another) story and variants: a different situation or state of affairs; a different matter altogether.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [phrase] > a different matter or state of affairs
a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530
a different (also another) story1688
something else1844
another pair of shoes1861
a different or another kettle of fish1937
a different cup of tea1940
the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [phrase] > a matter requiring different treatment
a different (also another) story1818
1688 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times III. 40 He is Now got into Clear Another story.
1696 Let. Humbly Offer'd 30 A quite different Story to what our last 7 Months has brought us to.
1765 I. Bickerstaff Maid of Mill ii. iv. 34 But the parson comes in sight, Gives the word to bill and coo; 'Tis a different story quite, and she quickly buckles too.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 308 But if she's gaun to look after the kye at St Leonard's, that's another story.
1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies i. 78 If the scientific man comes for a bone or a crust to us, that is another story.
1940 A. Christie Sad Cypress ii. iii. 128 As a matter of fact, it was Nurse O'Brien who set me on the track; but that's another story.
1958 ‘J. Castle’ & A. Hailey Flight into Danger i. 20 The met report was reasonable... In a month or so's time it'll be a very different story.
2010 P. Murray Skippy Dies 293 Some bruises you wear like badges of honour... A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story.
b. (the) same story: a repetition of an occurrence or situation; a familiar course of events. Cf. the (same) old story at old adj. 13d.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [phrase] > (to be) the same story
(the) same story1847
1847 A. S. Mayhew & H. Mayhew Greatest Plague of Life xiv. 240 It's the same story over and over again—worry, worry—bother, bother—from morning till night.
1905 Leslie's Monthly Mag. May 107/1 It has been the same story in every strike the man has undertaken, though it has been a longer job in most cases.
1979 J. Crosby Party of Year xxiii. 146 Let's look at the back stairs.—Same story there... The door was of steel.
1997 N.Y. Mag. 1 Sept. 22/1 It's the same story at rehabs and twelve-step groups across the city.
P8. to sell one's story: to reveal details of a particular episode in one's life (or one's version of it) to a newspaper, magazine, etc., in return for payment.
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1898 Hawaiian Gaz. 4 Nov. 4/2 Why..does this man go to London and sell his story to a magazine, for a small sum, when, if it was true, the wide awake Australian would have ‘syndicated’ him to his heart's content?
1909 Lit. Digest 18 Dec. 1120/1 The explorer, according to their story, agreed to pay them $4,000 for their work, but disappeared after paying them only $260, so they sold their story to The Times.
1912 Times 26 Apr. 9/6 He also admitted that he had authorised Cottam, the wireless operator on board the Carpathia, to sell his story.
1964 Times 29 Sept. 6/4 [He] got in touch with Mr Gabbert from The People and said he was prepared to sell his story.
1983 N.Y. Times 20 Mar. 36/3 The astronauts sold their story for $500,000 to Life magazine.
2004 J. Burchill Sugar Rush (2005) 29 If I see him again, I'm going to lie about my age, pull him and sell my story to the papers.
P9. the story of one's life: an event, statement, or situation that supposedly epitomizes one's life or experience. Frequently in that's the story of my life and variants, used as a resigned acknowledgement that one has experienced a particular misfortune too often.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [phrase] > that's the story of my life
the story of one's life1948
1948 Winnipeg Free Press 30 June 5/2 ‘You'll not get away so easy, you're caught,’ the enraged husband yells... Errol's reply is ‘That's the story of my life.’
1969 Time 30 May 22/3 In 13 years, he's been a hard-liner in criminal cases. That's the story of his life.
2009 J. Kellerman True Detectives x. 90 ‘I guess if you did agree to go off with me, I'd wonder about your judgment.’ He shrugged. ‘Story of my life. Ambivalence and second-guessing.’
P10. a cock-and-bull story: see cock n.1 and int. Phrases 1e(b); lie and story: see lie n.1 Additions; to cut a long story short: see long adj.1 and n.1 Phrases 3g; it's a long story: see long adj.1 and n.1 Phrases 3i; to have a story down pat: see pat adv.1 and adj. Phrases 1; tell-a-story: see tell- comb. form 1.
Compounds
C1. Compounds with story.
a. General attributive and objective, as story-group, story-lover, story-plot, story-reader, etc.
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1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions (new ed.) vii. 315 Where are the Story-Mongers? The Masters of the Faculty of Lying? That Report more than they Hear [etc.].
1748 S. Richardson Let. 15 Dec. (1964) 116 The Inattention of the Story-Lovers and Amusement-Seekers will not suffer half of those Lessons..to be observed.
1845 C. Dickens Chimes i. 1 It is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible.
1889 Spectator 9 Nov. 640/2 Never raising him above his true level, which was that of an artist in story-weaving.
1890 E. S. Hartland Sci. Fairy Tales (1891) i. 2 The outlines of a story-plot among savage races are wilder and more unconfined.
1903 C. R. Coleridge C. M. Yonge: Life & Lett. vi. 163 Miss Dyson had generous insight enough to know that her friend was a far better story-wright than herself.
1904 J. Weston in Romania 33 342 Remnants of a once popular and widely-spread story-group connected with the deeds of Gawain and his kin.
1951 L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils vii. 53 For she was always ‘Margaret’ to the story-hunters—assuming for a day or two the prerogative of the Princess.
1982 R. Brown & D. Bennett Anthol. Canad. Lit. in Eng. I. 534 A larger story-pattern that frequently appears in Canadian fiction and non-fiction, that of man's relationship to the garden of Eden.
1999 Time Out N.Y. 2 Dec. 153/4 Tumbleweeds is pretty conventional, sweet but slight, with an unfortunate predilection for story-advancing coincidences.
2010 Observer 21 Mar. 39/2 The blogosphere has introduced a new and disruptive force of fact-checkers, claim-debunkers, story-breakers, rumour-mongers and cyber-satirists.
b. † story-dresser n. Obsolete a writer of history whose method consists of embellishing the work of earlier authors.† story faith n. chiefly Theology Obsolete faith based on historical evidence as opposed to personal or religious conviction; = historical faith n. at historical adj. and n. Compounds 3.† story painter n. Obsolete a painter of historical or legendary subjects.† story-work n. Obsolete a pictorial representation of a historical or legendary subject; decoration consisting of this.† story-wrought adj. Obsolete rare adorned with pictorial representations of historical or legendary subjects.
story ballet n. a ballet with a plot and characters; a narrative ballet.
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1945 Salt Lake Tribune 27 Feb. 14/6 Presenting a story-ballet..portraying incidents from the life of that famous character of early America, ‘Johnny Appleseed’.
1964 Listener 23 Apr. 668/2 Story-ballets on special scenarios.
2005 New Yorker 25 July 38/2 A.B.T., as is its dubious practice with the big story ballets, cast everybody and his brother in the lead roles.
story conference n. Film, Television, and Radio a meeting of editorial and production staff to discuss the content of a script, or to plan future storylines.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference > particular types of
parliament?a1400
diet1471
symposiac1603
by-conference1625
guestling1629
sanhedrim1653
comitia1684
symposium1784
assembly1794
powwow1812
neighbourhood meeting1823
colloquium1861
congress1861
party conference1875
indaba1894
press conference1908
case conference1913
story conference1920
telemeeting1973
poster session1974
START1981
presser1988
1920 C. Lowrey First 100 Noted Men & Women of Screen 196 At a story conference he can tell the continuity writer where he missed a punch and how to get it.
1975 R. L. Simon Wild Turkey (1976) xi. 71 I found the producer's office... Graskow was in the middle of a story conference.
2000 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 July 247/2 Ruth's mastectomy was conceived at a story conference in the Pebble Mill studios about a year ago.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > writer or creator of fiction
fabular1565
story-dresser1592
fabler1614
figmentor1638
fiction-monger1835
fictioneer1923
fictioner1924
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. F4 Anie Storie dresser..that sets a new English nap on an olde Latine Apothegs.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 9 Our Poets steale from Homer,..Diuines vse Austins words verbatim still, and our story-dressers doe no other.
story editor n. a person who edits film, television, or radio scripts.
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society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > [noun] > people involved in putting on broadcast
script clerk1867
editor1881
programme builder1898
narrowcaster1930
story editor1930
sponsor1931
programme controller1934
scripter1936
lighting1956
producer1961
outside broadcaster1971
sound1972
programmer1978
1930 Catal. Copyright Entries: Pt. 1, Group 3 (Libr. of Congr. Copyright Office) 3 29/2 Fighting (The) parson; story editor H. M. Walker.
1966 Writing for BBC v. 24 The Story Editor..is concerned with the content of the script, rather than its technical requirements.
2012 P. Bloore Screenplay Business ii. x. 197 Producers who would not dream of trying to do the film editor's job, they all think that they can do the story editor's job.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > [noun] > a belief, dogma, tenet > concerned with historical fact
historical faith1531
history faith1531
story faith1531
1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon iv. sig. F.vii We beleue not only wyth story fayth, as men beleue old cronicles, but we beleue [etc.].
1617 B. Rich Irish Hubbub 53 So the Papists haue a storie Faith, but they haue no sauing Faith, nor no beleefe to doe them good.
story film n. a film that tells a story, esp. a fictional feature film.
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1937 A. Calder-Marshall in C. Day Lewis Mind in Chains 64 Proceeding from the lot of the film-worker to the nature of capitalist story-films, we find that they have a uniform basis.
1961 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing i. 36 This contempt for the simplest requirement of a story-film—the ability to create the illusion of events unfolding in logical sequence.
2006 N. Verhoeff West in Early Cinema 110 These films are all story films that in one way or another deal with a period in the history of the United States.
story hour n. a set time or period during which stories are told or read aloud to children, esp. as an organized event in a library, etc., or as a designated part of the school day; (also) an event of this type (cf. story time n.).
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1879 Winston Leader 9 Sept. 4/4 May we have a story? it is the story-hour.
1948 Life 6 Sept. 52 (caption) Story hour in the park is a frequent treat for Madison schoolchildren.
1963 Washington Post 2 Aug. a14/3 Any Negro child could go to story hour at any Washington public library.
2013 E. N. Emenyonu Writing Afr. in Short Story 5 The story-hour..was an important feature of the school curriculum.
storyline n. (an outline of) the principal stages by which a narrative (esp. a film script) unfolds; a plot.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > plot
plot1613
storyline1906
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot
plat1589
plot1613
paper-plot1622
bone1647
intrigue1651
action1668
intrigo1672
fable1678
story1679
happy ending1748
storyline1906
plot line1907
1906 Amer. Physician Mar. 86/1 He had to confess his inability to do the story-line justice.
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vi. 103 I've been after them to make a Jefferson picture..if I can only hammer out the goddam story line.
2000 R. J. Evans in R. Middlehurst Teaching Chicken to Swim 55 In Star Trek..there are very few storylines that actually deal with time travel.
story maker n. †(a) a writer of a historical narrative (obsolete); (b) a creator of stories, a storyteller.
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a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 162 Dares..that was att the Segee of the nobill Cite of Troy, and therof the stori-makere.
1723 B. Bennet Def. Memorial Reformation 150 Story-makers should have a little more art than is shewn upon this occasion.
1913 R. C. Maclagan Our Ancestors xxiv. 285 It is no wonder that the story-makers should ascribe its use in royal ceremonial as taking place in Ireland.
2010 R. Bhattacharyya Castle in Classroom vi. 129 She was..a story maker, creating tales of miracles and magic.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > historical painting > painter
story painter1634
history painter1658
war artist1859
1634 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman (new ed.) xii. 110 I call Reubens to witnesse, (the best story-painter of these times).
1671 E. Howard Womens Conquest Pref. sig. a3 He hath performed the noble invention and design that belongs to a Story Painter.
story paper n. now historical a periodical that contains works of fiction.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > other periodicals
annals1763
scientific journal1797
story paper1849
woman's magazine1868
woman's mag1887
house journal1912
film magazine1916
digest1922
fan magazine1928
pulp magazine1929
confession magazine1931
slick1934
glossy1945
trade1949
photonovel1967
1849 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 2 Jan. 2/3 There are..story papers, and literary papers, and religious papers, and free soil papers.
1888 R. L. Stevenson in Scribner's Mag. Mar. 382/1 He had a vulgar taste in letters; scarce flying higher than the story papers.
2011 S. Streeby in L. Cassuto et al. Cambr. Hist. Amer. Novel ii. xxxv. 586 Many dime novel authors started out as contributors to the story papers and other periodicals that emerged in the wake of the late 1840s print revolution.
story song n. a story told or performed in the form of a song; a song with a narrative thread.
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1903 Cosmopolitan Apr. 733 A sacred story song.
1919 Youth's Compan. 29 May 286/1 The ogre whom the hero in the minstrel's story song had vanquished.
1996 T. Plach Creative Use of Music in Group Therapy 33 In a story song, the vocalist sings a story to music.
2012 J. E. Perone Album 294 It is also a story song with no variation in the verse-chorus alternating structure.
story time n. a regular time at which a story is told or read aloud to children, esp. just before bedtime or as a designated part of the school day; cf. story hour n.
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1822 ‘M. Merrywhistle’ Isn't It Odd? I. iii. 57 Story-time, which was the last hour before bedtime.
1898 Amer. Jrnl. Educ. Sept. 8/2 We should not like to be without ‘story time’ in the primary room.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 June 385/5 Story-time in school is one of the most precious of all periods in the curriculum.
2014 J. Piehl Explore Libr. 16 Families come to the library for story time.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > historical painting
story-work1601
history painting1675
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > sculptures collectively > kind or quality of > specific
story-work1601
stonework1910
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xxxiii. 479 Thereof are drawne many vinets and borders about storie-workes in colours [L. in picturas operis topiarii; Fr. en historie en verdure].
1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese To beautifie with storie-work, historiare.
1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. i. sig. *Ss2v/2 Historier,..to make Story-work.
story-writing n. †(a) the writing of history, historiography (obsolete); (b) the writing of stories, fictional writing.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Story wrytyng, historiographia.
1853 E. Leslie Behaviour Bk. xiii. 168 One of our young relatives when seven or eight years old, tried her hand at story-writing.
2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 Dec. 80/3 All these secrets, with their very unbohemian sense of locked rooms and buried passions, feed into her story-writing.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > ornamented or trimmed > other
cudgelled1598
semined1604
story-wrought1608
well-laced1664
goffered1706
cockaded1713
epauletted1810
aiguilletted1841
fussy1858
sashed1869
overtrimmed1872
tabbed1872
pailletted1892
strapped1892
paillette1896
bullioned1902
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 48 Her wide-side Robes of Tissue passing price, All Story-wrought with bloody Victories [Fr. tout historié de victoires sanglantes].
C2. Compounds with stories.† stories-man n. Obsolete rare the authority for a story.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > authority for a story
stories-mana1661
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Hunt. 49 Mr. Parker (I tell you my story and my stories-man) an industrious Antiquary, collecteth out of the Records of the Church of Ely, that [etc.].
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storyv.1
/ˈstɔːri/, U.S. /ˈstɔri/ 1. transitive. In early use: †to relate in a history, to record the history of (obsolete). In later use: to tell as a story, to tell the story of, to relate. Also with that-clause as object. Frequently in passive with unexpressed or impersonal subject, as it is storied. Now somewhat archaic.Common in the 17th cent.
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society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > record in history or chronicle [verb (transitive)]
chroniclea1440
storyc1449
historyc1475
historifya1586
annal1606
annalize1616
storify1616
chronography1634
historiate1780
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > write or narrate history of [verb (transitive)]
storyc1449
historize1572
historifya1586
storify1616
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell (story) [verb (transitive)] > tell story of
record1340
to write upa1475
to story out1570
to story forth1591
story1610
yarn1840
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 353 And this Eusebi..took up on him for to write and storie the hool lijf and the deeth of the same Constantyn.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 156 She owithe well forto be..storied in scripture with other good ladyes.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1353/1 It were a large and long proces to story [1570 story out] al the doinges, trauailes, and wrytynges of this Christian Bishop.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xvii. 158 It is Storied, that the old Eagles, make proofe of their yong, by exposing them [etc.].
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 209 Their Tithes are not onely storied to haue been payed, but are strictly commanded to be payed.
1637 J. Milton Comus 18 What the sage Poëts..Storied of old in high immortall verse Of dire Chimera's and inchanted Iles.
1656 W. Prynne Short Demurrer to Jewes Remitter 41 Nicholas Trivet..thus stories the Jews banishment.
1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 90 Daphnis then storied to her what he had seen.
1672 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I (ed. 2) iii. ii. 33 Truth wrapt under these fables..as tis evident, by what is storied of the Floud.
1701 J. Howe Some Consideration Pref. Enq. 7 That..which is storied of Plato, that having one in his Academy that [etc.].
1796 S. T. Coleridge Ode Departing Year 9 With many an unimaginable groan Thou storiedst thy sad Hours!
1813 W. Taylor Let. 19 June in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 414 Are you not afraid of seeing the Peninsula evacuated before you have storied the ancient explosions of independence?
1864 Spectator 538 A people who would lay all laws e'er sung Or storied at thy feet.
1900 Academy 11 Aug. 106/1 It is storied that the Shah, being spoken to recently about the Omar Khayyám Club, asked: ‘Who is Omar Khayyám?’
2004 Guardian 10 Jan. (Review section) 15/1 The further claim is that we create or invent the self specifically by ‘writing’ and ‘storying’ it.
2. transitive. To adorn with depictions or representations of historical or legendary subjects; to illustrate. Usually in passive. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [verb (transitive)] > decorate with art
story1532
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > represent in art [verb (transitive)]
workOE
shapea1375
express1382
marka1393
resemblea1393
portraya1398
devisea1400
makea1400
represent?a1425
counterfeitc1440
to set on write1486
porturea1500
emporturea1529
story1532
portrait1548
show1565
decipher1567
portraiture1581
to set forth1585
emblazea1592
stell1598
defigure1599
infigure1606
effigiate1608
deportract1611
deportray1611
rendera1616
image1624
configure1630
exiconize1641
effigies1652
to take off1680
mimic1770
paraphrase1961
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxlix Our noble god..this world ordeyned, as in purtreytures storied with colours medled.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. x. 43 There, was storied on the rock [It. Quivi era storiata] The exalted glory of the Roman prince,..Trajan th' Emperor.
1844 T. Hood Haunted House iii, in Hood's Mag. Jan. 9 Rich hangings, storied by the needle's art, With scripture history, or classic fable.
1853 T. N. Talfourd Castilian iii. iv. 110 The walls Of alabaster, storied with the deeds Of saints and martyrs.
1905 F. M. Tyson tr. T. Gauthier Russia I. 382 Illumination has storied the domes of the bell-towers with drawings.
Phrasal verbs
With adverbs in specialized senses. to story forth † 2. transitive. Perhaps: to unravel the true story of. Obsolete.
Now rare.
to story out transitive. To tell the story of; to relate.
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society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > announce or proclaim [verb (transitive)] > announce or proclaim the story of
to story forth1591
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell (story) [verb (transitive)] > tell story of
record1340
to write upa1475
to story out1570
to story forth1591
story1610
yarn1840
1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. E4 My tongue is tunde to storie forth mishap.
1848 Ladies' Garland & Dollar Mag. Feb. 3/1 Their character is now storied forth with a faithfulness that leaves but little to say.
1969 G. F. Nuttal Faith of Dante Alighieri i. 5 There is also what is represented or storied forth in sculpture or effigy.
1. transitive. To relate the story or history of; to invent stories about. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell (story) [verb (transitive)] > tell story of
record1340
to write upa1475
to story out1570
to story forth1591
story1610
yarn1840
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > relate or represent in fiction [verb (transitive)]
feign1413
fable1553
to story out1570
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1908/1 It were a large and a long processe to story out [1563 story] all the doynges, trauailes, & writynges of this Christian Byshop.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) x. 188 Men once beleiv'd, Athos was sail'd about, And all that lying Greece dares story-out [L. et quicquid Graecia mendax Audet in historia].
2010 C. Holland Kings of North xxviii. 359 He had planned this for months, every night, storying out to himself what might happen.
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1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. G4v I goe my selfe, the ioyfulst man aliue To storie out this new supposed crime.
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† storyv.2
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To arrange in the manner of the stories of a building; to stratify.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > arrange in layers [verb (transitive)]
stratify1669
story1692
1692 R. Bentley Confut. Atheism from Struct. & Origin Humane Bodies: Pt. II 12 All the parts of an undisturbed Fluid are either of equal Gravity, or gradually placed and storied according to the differences of it.
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