Definition of Good story

1. Noun. An account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line). "She made a funny"

Exact synonyms: Funny, Funny Remark, Funny Story
Generic synonyms: Gag, Jape, Jest, Joke, Laugh

Lexicographical Neighbors of Good Story

good ole boy
good on you
good part
good people
good person
good riddance
good riddance to bad rubbish
good sense
good shape
good speller
good spirit
good spirits
good sport
good standing
good story (current term)
good temper
good things come to those who wait
good time
good time girl
good times
good to go
good turn
good turns
good value
good weather
good will
good wine needs no bush
good word
goodby

Literary usage of Good story

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Physicians, as we all know, do not always follow their own prescriptions. On this head the Portuguese compiler has a good story to teli, and he tells it in ..."

2. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by [Anonymus AC02789944] (1921)
"But there are some people born with the gift of telling a good story better ... And it was a good story that he told. The trouble was that we wanted to hear ..."

3. Story-telling, Questioning and Studying, Three School Arts by Herman Harrell Horne (1916)
"The good story is the one that appeals to the unperverted taste of children. ... St. John 2 also emphasizes the quality of action in a good story, ..."

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