Story vs. Saga: What's the Difference?

Story and Saga Definitions
Story
An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events
The witness changed her story under questioning.
Saga
A prose narrative usually written in Iceland between 1120 and 1400, dealing with the families that first settled Iceland and their descendants, with the histories of the kings of Norway, and with the myths and legends of early Germanic gods and heroes.
Story
An anecdote
Came back from the trip with some good stories.
Saga
A modern prose narrative that resembles a saga.
Story
A lie
Told us a story about the dog eating the cookies.
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Saga
A long detailed report
Recounted the saga of their family problems.
Story
A usually fictional prose or verse narrative intended to interest or amuse the hearer or reader; a tale.
Saga
An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
Story
A short story.
Saga
Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
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Story
The plot of a narrative or dramatic work.
Saga
Plural of sagum
Story
A news article or broadcast.
Saga
A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.
And then the blue-eyed Norseman toldA saga of the days of old.
Story
Something viewed as or providing material for a literary or journalistic treatment
"He was colorful, he was charismatic, he was controversial, he was a good story" (Terry Ann Knopf).
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Saga
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
Story
The background information regarding something
What's the story on these unpaid bills?.
Story
Romantic legend or tradition
A hero known to us in story.
Story
A complete horizontal division of a building, constituting the area between two adjacent floors.
Story
The set of rooms on the same floor of a building.
Story
To decorate with scenes representing historical or legendary events.
Story
(Archaic) To tell as a story.
Story
An account of real or fictional events.
The book tells the story of two roommates.
Story
A lie, fiction.
You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?
Story
A soap opera.
What will she do without being able to watch her stories?
Story
(obsolete) History.
Story
A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
What's the story with him?
I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.
Story
A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.
Story
(computing) user story
Story
To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
Story
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.
Story
A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
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.
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.
Story
A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.
Story
To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.
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.
Story
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;
His narrative was interesting
Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children
Story
A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;
He writes stories for the magazines
Story
Structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building;
What level is the office on?
Story
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
Story
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
Story
A trivial lie;
He told a fib about eating his spinach
How can I stop my child from telling stories?