Word Meanings - STOREY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• STORYBOOK
  A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
• STORY-TELLER
  1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. 2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. 3. A euphemism or child's word for "a liar."
• STORY
  A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. Note: A story
• STORY-TELLING
  Being accustomed to tell stories. -- n.
• CLERESTORY
  See CLEARSTORY
• FALDISTORY
  The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. (more info) faldstuol; faldan, faltan, to fold + stuol stool. So called because it could be folded or laid together. See Fold, and
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• CLERSTORY
  See CLEARSTORY
• HISTORY
  history, information, inquiry, fr. 'istwr, "istwr, knowing, learned, 1. A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record;
• BLINDSTORY
  The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.
• OVER-STORY
  The clearstory, or upper story, of a building.
• CLEARSTORY; CLERESTORY
  The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.