story

What is the Definition of story?

Noun:

  1. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
  2. a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
  3. a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
  4. a record or narrative description of past events
  5. a short account of the news
  6. a trivial lie

How can I use story in a sentence?

As Hagrid's story came to a close, he saw again the blinding flash of green light, more clearly than he had ever remembered it before — and he remembered something else, for the first time in his life: a high, cold, cruel laugh.

When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country.

And then the story started to spread: Harry Potter, the famous Harry Potter, their hero of two Quidditch matches, had lost them all those points, him and a couple of other stupid first years.

His turban, he told them, had been given to him by an African prince as a thank-you for getting rid of a troublesome zombie, but they were not sure they believed this story.

It was one of those rare occasions when the true story is even more strange and exciting than the wild rumors.


Other meanings of story (synonyms, cognates).


ENRU
story
  • рассказ, повесть, этаж
storybook
  • сборник
storyteller
  • рассказчик
storytelling
  • выдумка


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