Definition of story

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Story (n.) The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance..

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Story-teller :: Storybook (n.) A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false..
Patriarch :: Patriarch (n.) The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses..
Declare :: Declare (v. t.) To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false..
Clerestory :: Clerestory (n.) Same as Clearstory.
Stage :: Stage (n.) A floor or story of a house.
Phylogeny :: Phylogeny (n.) The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally..
Jeremiade :: "Jeremiade (n.) A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically..
Abridge :: Abridge (v. t.) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary..
Sphragistics :: Sphragistics (n.) The science of seals, their history, age, distinctions, etc., esp. as verifying the age and genuiness of documents..
Bungalow :: Bungalow (n.) A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda..
Storge :: Storey (n.) See Story.
Hexahemeron :: Hexahemeron (n.) The history of the six day's work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis..
Fabulosity :: Fabulosity (n.) A fabulous or fictitious story.
Heroine :: Heroine (n.) The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story..
Classis :: Classis (n.) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church..
Allegorize :: Allegorize (v. t.) To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people..
Jarl :: "Jarl (n.) A chief; an earl; in English history, one of the leaders in the Danish and Norse invasions..
Basement :: Basement (a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively..
Story :: Story (n.) The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance..
Onomatologist :: Onomatologist (n.) One versed in the history of names.
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