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How to spell story

Story is spelled S-T-O-R-Y.

hear itsto·ry/'stoʊri/nounLong vowels

What it means: A narrative or account of events.

In a sentence: Alice read a bedtime story with her mom.

Not to be confused with: storey, a different word.

Also spelled: storey (accepted as correct).

Same family: stories, storyteller, storytelling, history, narrative. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Story comes from Middle English 'storīe', from Old French 'estoire', meaning a history or account of events. It is related to the word 'history', and over time it came to mean not just true accounts but also imagined tales.

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