stories

7 definitions • 14 examples

a description, either true or imagined, of a connected series of events:

Will you read/tell me a story, daddy?

Martha chose her favourite book of bedtime stories.

He writes children's stories.

I don't know if it's true but it's a good story (= entertaining to listen to although probably not true).

She gave me her version of what had happened, but it would be interesting to hear his half/side of the story (= the events as described by him).

Apparently his first words to her were "Will you marry me?" or so the story goes (= that is what people say happened).

a report in a newspaper or on a news broadcast of something that has happened:

The main story in the papers today is the president's speech.

a lie:

He made up some story about having to be at his aunt's wedding anniversary.

a level of a building:

a three-story house

Their new house has four stories including the attic.

a description of events that actually happened or that are invented:

There was a news story on television about flooding on the west coast.

My daughter won’t go to bed without hearing a bedtime story.

A story can also be a lie:

Don’t tell me any stories – I want to know what really happened.

a level of a building:

She lived on the third floor of a seven-story building.