story
story is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. 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.
- noun. A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.
- transitive verb. To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.
- noun. a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
"what level is the office on?"
- noun. a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
"he writes stories for the magazines"
- noun. a record or narrative description of past events
"a history of France"
"he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"
- noun. a short account of the news
"the report of his speech"
"the story was on the 11 o'clock news"
- noun. a trivial lie
"he told a fib about eating his spinach"
"how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
- noun. 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
"his narrative was interesting"
"Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
Synonyms
floor, level, storey, account, chronicle, history, report, fib, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle, narration, narrative
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in story:
ryots, sorty, stroy, troys, tyros
Common word forms
storied, storier, stories, storying, storyless
Words from these letters
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