stories
- 1Plural of story.
Folklorists collect oral stories from communities before they vanish.
The newspaper ran three unrelated stories about the same scandal.
Note
One spelling serves three words: this narrative plural, the plural for building levels and the verb form. Here the final -y of story becomes -ies. The plural carries every meaning of the singular: accounts, lies, and soap operas in US colloquial speech. Sometimes capitalized, it also names the short-lived picture and video Stories that apps publish.
- 2Third-person singular simple present indicative of story.
Note
The verb takes a direct object when it means to narrate: she stories the trip. Its newer social-media sense, posting a Story, works with or without an object and is sometimes capitalized after the app feature. A singular subject in front of it is what marks the verb, not the noun plural.
She stories every concert from the front row.
He barely posts photos anymore; he just stories all day.
Showing meanings only.
stories is a form of story
story, noun: An account of real or fictional events, including past events, told in spoken or written words. Full entry
- Forms
- storystories plural
- Spelling
- story → stories: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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