story

1 archaic :  to narrate or describe in story

2 :  to adorn with a story or a scene from history

1a :  the space in a building between two adjacent floor levels or between a floor and the roofb :  a set of rooms in such a spacec :  a unit of measure equal to the height of the story of a building <one story high>

2 :  a horizontal division of a building's exterior not necessarily corresponding exactly with the stories within

Joseph 1779–1845 Am. jurist

William Wetmore 1819–1895 son of prec. Am. sculptor

1 :  a report about incidents or events :  account <Let's hear your story of what happened.>

2 :  a short often amusing tale <My grandfather tells stories of his childhood.>

3 :  a fictional tale shorter than a novel

4 :  a widely told rumor

5 :  ³lie, falsehood <They made up a story of how the window got broken.>

:  a set of rooms or an area making up one floor level of a building <The building is 20 stories high.>