life story

:  the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body

:  a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings

:  an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism (see metabolism 1), growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction

:  of or relating to animate being

:  lifelong

:  using a living model

:  history

:  history

:  an account of incidents or events

:  to narrate or describe in story

:  to adorn with a story or a scene from history

:  the space in a building between two adjacent floor levels or between a floor and the roof

:  a set of rooms in such a space

:  a unit of measure equal to the height of the story of a building