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story

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1. story - Noun

2. story - Verb

3. Story - Proper noun

Meaning

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.

A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.

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.

A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.

To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. Thucydides

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end ... but not necessarily in that order. Jean-Luc Godard

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf

Every story has two sides and every song has twelve versions. Icelandic Proverb

It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. American Proverb

There are two sides to every story -- and then there's the truth. American Proverb

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