Intrigue vs. Story

A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.

The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.

Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.

(intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.

(transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.

(intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.

(transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.

To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.

To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.

To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.

Example: ‘How doth it [sin] perplex and intrique the whole course of your lives!’;

Intricacy; complication.

A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.

Example: ‘Busy meddlers with intrigues of state.’;

The plot of a play or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.

A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.

Example: ‘The hero of a comedy is represented victorious in all his intrigues.’;

a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

a clandestine love affair

cause to be interested or curious

form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.

Example: ‘The book tells the story of two roommates.’;

A lie, fiction.

Example: ‘You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?’;

A soap opera.

Example: ‘What will she do without being able to watch her stories?’;

(obsolete) History.

A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

Example: ‘What's the story with him?’; ‘I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.’;

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(obsolete) A building or edifice.

A floor or level of a building; a storey.

Example: ‘Our shop was on the fourth story of the building, so we had to install an elevator.’;

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To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.

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.

A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.

Example: ‘One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story.’; ‘Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive story.’; ‘The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story.’;

The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance.

A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.

To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.

Example: ‘How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.’; ‘It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.’;

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 program;

Example: ‘his narrative was interesting’; ‘Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children’;

a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;

Example: ‘he writes stories for the magazines’;

structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building;

Example: ‘what level is the office on?’;

a record or narrative description of past events;

Example: ‘a history of France’; ‘he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president’; ‘the story of exposure to lead’;

a short account of the news;

Example: ‘the report of his speech’; ‘the story was on the 11 o'clock news’; ‘the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious’;

a trivial lie;

Example: ‘he told a fib about eating his spinach’; ‘how can I stop my child from telling stories?’;

an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment

Example: ‘I'm going to tell you a story’; ‘an adventure story’;

a plot or storyline

Example: ‘the novel has a good story’;

a report of an item of news in a newspaper, magazine, or broadcast

Example: ‘stories in the local papers’;

a piece of gossip; a rumour

Example: ‘there have been lots of stories going around, as you can imagine’;

a false statement; a lie

Example: ‘Ellie never told stories—she had always believed in the truth’;

an account of past events in someone's life or in the development of something

Example: ‘the film is based on a true story’; ‘the story of modern farming’;

a particular person's representation of the facts of a matter

Example: ‘during police interviews, Harper changed his story’;

a situation viewed in terms of the information known about it or its similarity to another

Example: ‘United kept on trying but it was the same old story—no luck’; ‘having such information is useful, but it is not the whole story’;

the facts about the present situation

Example: ‘What's the story on this man? Is he from around here?’;

the commercial prospects or circumstances of a particular company

Example: ‘the investors' flight to profitable businesses with solid stories’;

variant spelling of storey