ˈLove ˌStory
(1970) a very sad film, based on the book by Erich Segal, in which Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw appear as two young people who fall in love and get married, but then the woman soon dies of leukaemia

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floor one of the levels in a building:
She lives in an apartment on the eighteenth floor.
storey British English, story American English used when saying how many levels a building has:
a five-storey car park
The school is a single storey building.
the ground floor (also the first floor American English) the floor of a building that is at ground level:
There is a shop on the ground floor.
The emergency room is on the first floor.
the first floor British English, the second floor American English the floor of a building above the one at ground level:
She lives on the first floor.
deck one of the levels on a ship, bus, or plane:
The Horizon Lounge is on the top deck of the ship.
a true story
‘Schindler’s List’ tells the true story of Oskar Schindler.
a classic story (=old and admired by many people, or typical and good )
a classic story about a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole
a short story
He has published two collections of short stories.
a children’s story
Enid Blyton is famous for writing children’s stories.
a love story
‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a classic love story.
a fairy story (=a children's story in which magical things happen)
She looked like a princess in a fairy story.
an adventure story
an exciting adventure story for children
a detective story
Most detective stories are about a murder.
a ghost/horror story
They sat round the fire telling ghost stories.
She likes reading horror stories.
a bedtime story (=one that you read to a child before they go to sleep)
He remembered his mother reading him a bedtime story.
tell (somebody) a story
Would you like me to tell you a story?
read (somebody) a story
She read a lot of detective stories.
write a story
The story was written by Lewis Carroll.
a big story (=a report about something important)
He had promised the newspaper a big story on a major celebrity.
the lead/top story (=the most important story in a newspaper or news programme)
The floods were the lead story on the news that evening.
a front-page story
The Times published a front-page story about the scandal.
a cover story (=the main story in a magazine, mentioned on the cover)
Hello magazine did a cover story on her last year.
do a story (=write and then print or broadcast it)
I went to Iraq to do a story on the war.
print/publish a story
The News of the World decided not to print the story.
run a story (=print it or broadcast it)
There wasn't enough definite information to run the story.
cover a story (=report on it)
Her family complained about the way that journalists had covered the story.
break a story (=report on it for the first time)
The Daily Mail was the paper which broke the story.
leak a story (=secretly tell a reporter about it)
We may never know who leaked the story to the press.
a story breaks (=it is reported for the first time)
I still remember the shock when that story broke.
story a description of how something happened that is intended to entertain people, and may be true or imaginary:
a ghost story
a love story
It’s a story about a man who loses his memory.
a book of short stories
tale a story about strange imaginary events, or exciting events that happened in the past:
a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
I loved hearing tales of his travels.
myth noun [uncountable and countable] a very old imaginary story about gods and magical creatures:
an ancient myth
Greek and Roman myths
legend noun [uncountable and countable] an old story about brave people or magical events that are probably not true:
popular legends of the creation of the world
According to legend, King Arthur was buried there.
fable a traditional imaginary short story that teaches a moral lesson, especially a story about animals:
the fable of the tortoise and the hare
a Chinese fable
epic a story told in a long book, film, or poem which is about great or exciting events, especially in history:
an epic about 13th-century Scottish hero William Wallace
saga a story about a series of events that take place over a long period of time, especially events involving one family:
a family saga beginning in the 1880s
yarn informal a long exciting story that is not completely true:
The movie’s a rattling good yarn and full of action.
give (somebody) a story
I had the feeling that she wasn't giving me the full story.
hear a story (also listen to a story)
I’ve heard that story a hundred times.
make up/invent a story
She confessed to making up the story of being abducted.
stick to your story (=keep saying it is true)
He didn’t believe her at first, but she stuck to her story.
change your story
During police interviews, Harper changed his story several times.
believe a story
The jury did not believe Evans's story.
swap stories (=tell each other stories)
They swapped stories and shared their experiences.
the story goes (=this is what is people say happened)
The story goes that he was drowned off the south coast, but not everyone believed it.
a story goes around (=people tell it to each other)
A story went around that she had been having an affair.
the full/whole story
I did not know the full story.
a plausible/convincing story
She tried to think up a convincing story to tell her parents.
a remarkable story
The film tells the remarkable story of their escape from a prison camp.
an apocryphal story (=one that is well-known but probably not true)
There are many apocryphal stories about him.
the inside story (=including facts that are known only to people involved)
Though I’d seen the official report, I wanted the inside story.
sb’s side of the story (=someone’s account of what happened, which may be different from someone else’s)
I would like to give my side of the story.

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