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Noun story has 6 senses
- narrative, narration, story, tale - 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"
--1 is a kind of message, content, subject matter, substance
--1 has particulars:
- story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
--2 is a kind of fiction
--2 has parts: climax, culmination; anticlimax, bathos
--2 has particulars:
- floor, level, storey, story - structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building; "what level is the office on?"
--3 is a kind of structure, construction
--3 is a part of building, edifice
--3 has particulars:
- history, account, chronicle, story - a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"
--4 is a kind of record
--4 has particulars:
- report, news report, story, account, write up - a short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"
--5 is a kind of news
--5 has particulars:
- fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle - a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
--6 is a kind of lie, prevarication
--6 has particulars:
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