Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.

    The film used voice-over narration to explain the story.

    His calm narration made the documentary easy to follow.

    Erzählung

    повествова́ниеpovestvovánije, изложе́ниеizložénije, расска́зrasskáz

    оповіда́нняopovidánnja, розповіда́нняrozpovidánnja

    a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

  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.

    Erzählung

    расска́зrasskáz

    оповіда́нняopovidánnja

  3. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable)That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

    ди́кторский текстdíktorskij tekst

    (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth

Examples

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  1. There are different points of view in the narration.

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  2. He mesmerized us all with the dramatized narration of his journey.

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  3. Janos sent his stories to the local radio station for narration.

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  4. All I watch is let's plays with text-to-speech narration.

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  5. Narrations can be analysed in terms of point of view.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
act of recounting or relating:
Русский
By meaning 2
act of recounting or relating:
part of an oration:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act of recounting or relating:

Origin

From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narrātiō. By surface a

From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narrātiō. By surface analysis, Latin narr- + -ate + -ion.

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Forms

plural: narrations
Singularnarration
Pluralnarrations

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events:recitalyarn
  • a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program:narrativestorytale

Word family

9 related words

See also

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