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Nouns (19)

n. a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"

n. a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?"

history, account, chronicle, story

n. a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"

report, news report, story, account, write up

n. a short account of the news; "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"

fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle

n. a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"

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Fuzzynyms (72)

stage

n. a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"

item

n. a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection; "they reduced the price on many items"

article

n. one of a class of artifacts; "an article of clothing"

layer

n. a hen that lays eggs

line

n. something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible; "a washing line"

Champaign

n. a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana

tier

n. one of two or more layers one atop another; "tier upon tier of huge casks"; "a three-tier wedding cake"

chronology

n. a record of events in the order of their occurrence

epic poem, heroic poem, epic, epos

n. a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

saga

n. a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account

comment, commentary

n. a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"

footnote, footer

n. a printed note placed below the text on a printed page

gloss, rubric

n. an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text

observation, reflection, reflexion

n. a remark expressing careful consideration

explanation

n. the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible; "I heard his explanation of the accident"

gazette

n. a newspaper or official journal

periodical

n. a publication that appears at fixed intervals

tabloid, rag, sheet

n. newspaper with half-size pages

insertion, introduction, intromission

n. the act of putting one thing into another

narration

n. (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth

novel

n. an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

minutes, proceedings, transactions

n. a written account of what transpired at a meeting

interpretation

n. an explanation that results from interpreting something; "the report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence"

opinion, legal opinion, judgment, judgement

n. the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision; "opinions are usually written by a single judge"

record

n. a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase"

transcript

n. something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech; "he read a transcript of the interrogation"; "you can obtain a transcript of this radio program by sending a self-addressed envelope to the station"

diary, journal

n. a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations

daybook, journal

n. a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred

n. a book in which names and transactions are listed

n. an official written record of names or events or transactions

report card, report

n. a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment; "his father signed his report card"

analysis

n. a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed

appraisal

n. an expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something

comment, commentary

n. a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"

reappraisal, revaluation, review, reassessment

n. a new appraisal or evaluation

line

n. text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza"

article

n. nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication

narration

n. (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth

falsehood, falsity, untruth

n. a false statement

fabrication, fiction, fable

n. a deliberately false or improbable account

exaggeration, overstatement, magnification

n. making to seem more important than it really is

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Antonyms (3)

fabrication, fiction, fable

n. a deliberately false or improbable account

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