narration

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[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn

[edit] Noun

narration (plural narrations)

1. The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
2. 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. (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

[edit] Related terms

• narrate
• narrative
• narrator

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[edit] References

• narration in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911