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Meaning of story in English
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story noun [C] (DESCRIPTION)
A story can also be a lie:
story noun [C] (LEVEL)
(Definition of story from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of story
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Therefore, try your best when you tell the story, so (s)he can solve the riddle.
All are concerned with telling the story of her life.
No doubt there is some revised physiological story to be told.
The story, as it has been told, offers them 'a usable past' that should help them to cope with future change.
He is telling a story of the political interaction between the two peoples and the cultural changes which follow it.
Thus, it appears that for school-age children there may be a tension between telling a coherent story and including specific evaluative comments.
Instead, however, the author seems to have gone out of his way to avoid telling any such story.
Are we being told the whole story, or only that part of it which suits the author's purpose?
The main appeal of the correspondence to the modern reader is that it tells the story so well.
The story of his inability to keep silent after this abjuration has been told many times.
There is, however, another story to be told.
The following account, while telling something of their story, looks at how such a private 'language' can impact negatively on second-language acquisition.
With a reference list of literary works, munication networks, and new approaches to story resources to fight censorship, and three appendices telling.
Symbolic talk involves talk about play characters, their imagined actions, speech, and states, and characteristics of the imagined story setting.
Here, a _story_-completion approach was also used around attachment and emotion themes, and children were asked to complete the stories and describe the characters' feelings.
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Collocations with story
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One problem for the reader is that the book exhibits mood swings from anecdotal stories.
The venerable tradition of the bedtime story, a story intended to soothe anxieties and ease young children into sleep, is discarded with gleeful panache.
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Translations of story
in Chinese (Traditional)
描述, （真實或虛構的）故事, 敘述，描述…
in Chinese (Simplified)
描述, （真实或虚构的）故事, 叙述，描述…
in Spanish
historia, planta, piso…
in Portuguese
história, mentira, piso…
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histoire [feminine], récit [masculine], version (des faits)…
இணைக்கப்பட்ட தொடர் நிகழ்வுகளின் உண்மை அல்லது கற்பனை செய்யப்பட்ட ஒரு விளக்கம், ஒரு பொய்…
વાર્તા, વાર્તા કરવી, જૂઠાણું ચલાવવું…
historie, -historie, historie-…
historia, berättelse, saga…
die Geschichte, das Märchen…
historie [masculine], fortelling [masculine], eventyr [neuter]…
کہانی, جھوٹ, کہانی بنانا…
оповідання, повість, вигадка…
গল্প / কাহিনী, বিভিন্ন ঘটনা পর পর সাজিয়ে একটি সামগ্রিক রচনা, যা সত্য অথবা কল্পিত।…
historia, opowieść, opowiadanie…
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