story English
Alternative forms
* storie (obsolete), storey
Noun
( stories)
A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.
* Ed. Rev.
- Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story
* Sir W. Temple
- The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story .
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, title=( The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Travels and travails
, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
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A lie.
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(chiefly, US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , chapter I:
- The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.
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(US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.
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(obsolete) History.
* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
- who is so unread or so uncatechis'd in story , that hath not heard of many sects refusing books as a hindrance, and preserving their doctrine unmixt for many ages, only by unwritt'n traditions.
A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
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Usage notes
* (soap opera) Popularized in the 1950s, when soap operas were often billed as "continuing stories", the term "story" to describe a soap opera fell into disuse by the 21st century and is now used chiefly among older people and in rural areas. Other English-speaking countries used the term at its zenith as a "loaned" word from the United States.
Synonyms
* (account) tome
* (lie) See
* (floor) floor, level
* (soap opera) soap opera, serial
* narrative
Derived terms
* Banbury story of a cock and a bull
* bedtime story
* chain story
* cock-and-bull story
* cover story
* end of story
* fish story
* ghost story
* horror story
* just-so story
* likely story
* love story
* my stories
* shaggy-dog story
* short short story
* short story
* sob story
* storiation
* story editor
* storybook
* storyline
* story of my life
* storyteller
* storytelling
* success story
* tall story
* to cut a long story short
* war story
Verb
To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
* Shakespeare
- How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
* Bishop Wilkins
- It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.
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sage English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sage (11th century), from . The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece .
Adjective
( er)
Wise.
* Shakespeare
- All you sage counsellors, hence!
* Milton
- commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of sage advice, counselled the general to retreat
(obsolete) grave; serious; solemn
* Milton
- [Great bards] in sage and solemn tunes have sung.
Synonyms
* sagacious
Noun
( en noun)
A wise person or spiritual teacher; a man or woman of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
* 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , London: Oxford University Press (1973), § 34:
- We aspire to the magnanimous firmness of the philosophic sage .
Synonyms
* deep thinker, egghead, intellectual, pundit
Derived terms
* sagely
* sageness
* sage on the stage
* Seven Sages
Related terms
* sagacious
* sagacity
See also
* rishi
* maharishi
Etymology 2
From (etyl) sauge, from (etyl) salvia, from , see safe .
Noun
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The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes.
Synonyms
* (herb) ramona
Derived terms
* sagebush
* Sage Derby
* sage dog
* sage green
* sage grouse
* sage tea
* sage thrasher
* wood sage
See also
* salvia
External links
* (Salvia officinalis)
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Etymology 3
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Verb
(sag)
(Internet slang) The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply
Usage notes
* This word is specific to imageboards. The original purpose of sage is to not bump a thread if one deems one's own post to be of little value.
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