story

English Online Dictionary. What means story‎? What does story mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɔː.ɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɔ.ɹi/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹi

Etymology 1

From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis. The Anglo-Norman word itself comes from Latin historia, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.

Alternative forms

• storie (obsolete)

Noun

story (plural stories)

1. An account of real or fictional events.

   Synonym: tome

   • June 1861, Edinburgh Review, The Kingdom of Italy

     Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story...

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

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

2. A lie, fiction.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lie

3. (US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.

   Synonym: serial
4. (obsolete) History.
5. A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

   Synonym: narrative

6. (social media, sometimes capitalized) 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.
7. (computing) Ellipsis of user story.

Usage notes

• (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.

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Translations

Verb

story (third-person singular simple present stories, present participle storying, simple past and past participle storied)

1. (transitive) To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
2. (ambitransitive, social media, sometimes capitalized) To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website.

Etymology 2

Alternative form of what's the story (“how are you?”)

Interjection

story

1. (idiomatic, Ireland, Dublin) Used as a greeting, short for what's the story?

Alternative forms

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

Etymology 3

Noun

story (plural stories)

1. (chiefly US, Philippines) Alternative spelling of storey.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:story.

References

Anagrams

• ryots, stroy, tyros

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French estoree, past participle of estorer. Alternatively, the same word as storie.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

story (plural storyes) (rare)

1. A level of a building.
2. A line of paddles on a ship.

Descendants

• English: story, storey

References

• “stōrī(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-05.

Etymology 2

From Old French estorie, estoire.

Verb

story

1. Alternative form of storie

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

story

1. (Southern Greater Poland) Alternative form of stary

Noun

story m pers

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

Further reading

• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “story”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 31

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English story.

Noun

story n (plural story-uri)

1. story

Declension

Slovincian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *starъ.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

story (comparative starszy, superlative nostarszy, no derived adverb)

1. old (not young)

   Antonym: mlôdy

2. old (not new)

   Antonym: nôwy

Further reading

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1912) “stǻu̯rï”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[12] (in German), volume 2, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 1096

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English story. First attested in 1940.

Noun

story c

1. (colloquial) A story (account of real or fictional events).

   Synonyms: berättelse, handling, historia, redogörelse

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• story in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkish

Alternative forms

• st (abbreviation)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

story (definite accusative storyi or storyyi, plural storyler)

1. (social media) story