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Detailed Translations for story from English to French

story:

story [the ~] noun

  1. the story (narration; tale; legend; myth)
    l'histoire; le conte; la fable; le compte-rendu; la fiction; l'exposé; la légende; le rapport; le mythe; la tradition
  2. the story (excuse; sham)
    le subterfuge; le faux-fuyant
  3. the story (fib; fairytale; delusion; )
    – a trivial lie 1
    la fable; le conte de fées; la fiction; l'illusion; la fabulation; l'affabulation; l'invention
  4. the story (fairytale; fable)
    le récit; la merveille; le conte de fée; la fable; la narration; le conte; le rêve; la fiction
  5. the story
    – A document area that contains a range of text distinct from other areas of text in a document. For example, if a document includes body text, footnotes, and headers, it contains a main text story, footnotes story, and headers story. 2
    l'article

Translation Matrix for story:

NounRelated TranslationsOther Translations
affabulation delusion; fable; fairytale; fib; fiction; old wive's tale; story
article story article; clause; essay; fragment; gadget; good; item; lecture; little bit; matter; object; paper; particle; phrase; piece; post; project; publication; section; thing
compte-rendu legend; myth; narration; story; tale analysis; appraisal; assessment; book review; criticism; critique; discussion; record; report; review; survey
conte fable; fairytale; legend; myth; narration; story; tale tradition
conte de fée fable; fairytale; story
conte de fées delusion; fable; fairytale; fib; fiction; old wive's tale; story
exposé legend; myth; narration; story; tale account; angle; aspect; attitude; city plan; commentary; conception; declamation; delivery; dogma; elucidation; essay; floor-plan; foreword; groundplan; idea; interpretation; introduction; introductory remarks; lecture; map; notion; opinion; outlook; paper; perspective; plan; point of view; preamble; preface; project; prologue; reading; religious doctrine; report; site plan; sketch of the situation; stand; street map; synopses; tenet; town-map; turn to read; version; view; vision; way of thinking
fable delusion; fable; fairytale; fib; fiction; legend; myth; narration; old wive's tale; story; tale
fabulation delusion; fable; fairytale; fib; fiction; old wive's tale; story
faux-fuyant excuse; sham; story beating about; beating around the bush; excuse; poor excuse; poor excuses
fiction delusion; fable; fairytale; fib; fiction; legend; myth; narration; old wive's tale; story; tale fabrication; fantasy; figment of the imagination; illusion; imagination; phantasy; pipe dream
histoire legend; myth; narration; story; tale event; happening; history; incident
illusion delusion; fable; fairytale; fib; fiction; old wive's tale; story chimera; delusion; erroneous idea; fabrication; fallacy; false hopes; fantasm; fantasy; fata morgana; figment of the imagination; guise; hallucination; illusion; imagination; mirage; phantasm; phantasy; pipe dream; pretence; pretense; pretext; wrong notion
invention delusion; fable; fairytale; fib; fiction; old wive's tale; story delusion; discovery; fata morgana; find; illusion; invention; mirage
légende legend; myth; narration; story; tale caption; caption bar; caption text; inscription; label; legend; marginal note; myth; title bar; tradition
merveille fable; fairytale; story miracle; mystery
mythe legend; myth; narration; story; tale legend; myth; tradition
narration fable; fairytale; story
rapport legend; myth; narration; story; tale account; agreement; alliance; amorous adventure; announcing; association; band; binding; bond; commentary; connection; courtship; giving notice of; intercourse; junction; league; liaison; link; love affair; minutes; pact; proclaiming; record; relation; relationship; report; romance; romanticism; survey; thickness; union; wooing
récit fable; fairytale; story
rêve fable; fairytale; story chimera; delusion; dream; erroneous idea; fallacy; false hopes; fantasm; fantasy; figment of the imagination; illusion; mirage; phantasm; phantasy; wrong notion
subterfuge excuse; sham; story excuse; poor excuse; trick
tradition legend; myth; narration; story; tale custom; habit; tradition
- account; chronicle; fib; floor; history; level; narration; narrative; news report; report; storey; tale; taradiddle; tarradiddle; write up
OtherRelated TranslationsOther Translations
- plot
ModifierRelated TranslationsOther Translations
exposé clarified; cleared up; enlightened; explained; illuminated; illustrated; lit; made lighter; opened; opened up; unlocked

Related Words for "story":

  • stories

Synonyms for "story":


Related Definitions for "story":

  1. a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale1
  2. a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events1
    • he writes stories for the magazines1
  3. a record or narrative description of past events1
    • the story of exposure to lead1
  4. a short account of the news1
    • the story was on the 11 o'clock news1
  5. a trivial lie1
    • how can I stop my child from telling stories?1
  6. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program1
    • Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children1
  7. A document area that contains a range of text distinct from other areas of text in a document. For example, if a document includes body text, footnotes, and headers, it contains a main text story, footnotes story, and headers story.2

Wiktionary Translations for story:

story
noun
  1. account of events
  2. level of a building
story
noun
  1. Récit d’aventures imaginaires.
  2. Récit, aventure, conte
  3. Étage
  4. Récit
  5. relation, narration, orale ou écrite, d’un événement.
  6. espace entre deux planchers dans un bâtiment.

Cross Translation:
FromToVia
story narration; récit; conte vertelling — een verhaal dat bedoeld is om verteld te worden
story nouvelle; histoire verhaal — een verslag van een waargebeurde of verzonnen gebeurtenis
story récit Erzählung — Darstellung eines Ereignisses, Vorkommnisses
story plancher; étage Etage — Stockwerk eines Bauwerks
story histoire; conte Geschichte — eine mündliche oder schriftliche Erzählung oder Überlieferung
story étage Stockkurz für: Stockwerk
story étage StockwerkGeschoss über dem Parterre
story histoire; message Story — die Handlung ausmachende (zumeist knapp umrissene) Geschichte einer literarischen, filmischen, theatralischen oder ähnlichen Erzählung

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