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storying

storying is the present participle and gerund of story.

Meaning of story

Verb

story (third-person singular simple present stories, present participle storying, simple past and past participle storied)

  1. (transitive) To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
    • How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  2. (ambitransitive, capitalized, sometimes, social media) To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website.
    • But Portman, quite self-deprecating about her social-media savvy, says she . . . isn’t quite fully at ease yet with the world of double-taps and geotags and storying.2018 February 12, Josh Duboff, “Reese Witherspoon Is Natalie Portman’s Instagram Guru”, in Vanity Fair

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Noun

storying (plural storyings)

  1. The telling of a story or series of events.
    • As we hope to show in this chapter, though, it is not really different material that we need so much as different interpretations, different storyings, different “valuations” of the material that we have.2008, William L. Randall, Elizabeth McKim, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old, page 177
    • Other people's storyings were contributing to the storyings of my own life. The chapter which follows is a narrative of some of the understandings developed during the year in which this book was written.2010, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Penelope Harnett, Exploring learning, identity and power through life history and narrative research

Forms of storying

pluralstoryings

Phrases with storying

Questions about storying

What does storying mean?
Storying means the telling of a story or series of events.
What is storying the present participle and gerund of?
Storying is the present participle and gerund of story.
What part of speech is storying?
Storying is a noun.
What is the plural of storying?
The plural of storying is storyings.

Words near storying in the dictionary

  1. storybooklike
  2. storybooks
  3. storyette
  4. storyettes
  5. storyful
  6. storying
  7. storyings
  8. storyknife
  9. storyknifing
  10. storyknives
  11. storyland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: storying (page history and authors); story (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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