narration

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
2. (countable, uncountable) That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
3. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

Synonyms

narrative

story

relation

description

tale

recital

account

yarn

🧶

recounting

report

retelling

explanation

legend

myth

naming

narrator

novel

paraphrase

recitation

rede

relating

rendering

repetition

short story

speech

statement

write up

storytelling

communication

history

topic for discussion

opening a conversation

anecdote

announcing

chronicle

commentary

depiction

discourse

exposition

expository

films

folktale

lecture

Translations

narración

narration

narração

Erzählung

narrazione

récit

αφήγηση

narrativa

relato

história

verhaal

διήγηση

storia

narració

racconto

Pronounced as (IPA)

/nəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narrātiō.