Story vs. Saga: What's the Difference?

An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events

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.

An anecdote

A modern prose narrative that resembles a saga.

A lie

A long detailed report

A usually fictional prose or verse narrative intended to interest or amuse the hearer or reader; a tale.

An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.

A short story.

Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.

The plot of a narrative or dramatic work.

Plural of sagum

A news article or broadcast.

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.

Something viewed as or providing material for a literary or journalistic treatment

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

The background information regarding something

Romantic legend or tradition

A complete horizontal division of a building, constituting the area between two adjacent floors.

The set of rooms on the same floor of a building.

To decorate with scenes representing historical or legendary events.

(Archaic) To tell as a story.

An account of real or fictional events.

A lie, fiction.

A soap opera.

(obsolete) History.

A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

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.

(computing) user story

To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.

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.

A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.

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.

A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.

To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in 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;

A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;

Structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building;

A record or narrative description of past events;

A short account of the news;

A trivial lie;