narration

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.

Related terms

• narrate
• narrative
• narrator

Translations

Act of recounting or relating the particulars of some action, occurrence or affair

Arabic: حكاية (ar) f. Croatian: pripovijédānje (hr) n. Dutch: vertellen (nl)

Finnish: kertomus (fi), kuvaus (fi) German: Erzählung (de) f.

Narrated or recounted; orderly recital of the particulars of a transaction ot event

Croatian: prȉpovijētka (hr) f., prȉpovijēst (hr)

Finnish: (orderly recital of a story) kerronta

Part of an oration where the speaker makes his or her statement

References

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