true story
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2.7
- noun
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historia real
- This is a true story.
- tell a true story
- based on a true story
- mostly true stories
All right, so the ACT on Hulu is about a true story of Munchausen's.
- All right, so the ACT on Hulu is about a true story of Munchausen's.
- And you are the author of Send Me the True Story of a Mother at War.
- Some student said, oh, well, it's a true story.
- The actual true story is almost weirder than the joke we wrote.
- So he like, it's based on a true story.
- Is this a real school based on a true story?
- Now, of course, unfortunately, you're not going to always get the full true story, OK.
- But this is definitely based on true story.
- Here's a smaller area, but this actually was a true story from my laptop playing up.
Examples
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The true story of the sacred twins is told in a letter they wrote to the Pharaoh over 2,000 years ago.
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This is the true story of the Goyonia incident.
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Do you know the the true story of what happened?
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Let me tell you a true story to try to make myself clear.
Academic text (1993) -
This is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood.
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This is the true story of the Conqueror.
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Randall Park and I sit down with real people and we hear real true stories from their lives.
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Tonight on Fox, the true story behind the trial that's captured the nation.
Fiction book (1996) -
This is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood.
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It's based on a true story of an FBI agent who infiltrated the mob.
Synonyms
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4.1
A short, interesting story about a real person or event that often makes people smile
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2.7
The true account of what happened, not rumors
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning an account of events that actually happened is directly and transparently derived from combining true (in accordance with fact) with story (a narrative). This adjective+noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish historia verdadera, French histoire vraie) and follows standard English semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the phrase.
Etymology
The phrase true story comes from storytellers and book titles who put true before story to show the tale really happened. So, when people say true story today, they mean a tale that is 'not made up'.