narration
English
Etymology
From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narrātiō.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /næˈɹeɪʃən/, [næˈɹeɪ̯ʃɪ̈n]
- IPA(key): /nəˈɹeɪʃən/, /nɛˈɹeɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
narration (countable and uncountable, plural narrations)
- The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
- 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.
- (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.
Translations
act of recounting or relating
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orderly recital of the particulars of a transaction or event
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part of an oration
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References
- narration in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
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Noun
narration f (plural narrations)
Related terms
Further reading
- “narration” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
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