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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To give an account of (events, for example) in speech or writing or by means of images. synonym: describe.
  • transitive verb To supply a running commentary for (a documentary or performance, for example).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To tell. rehearse, or recite in detail; relate the particulars or incidents of; relate in speech or writing.
  • Synonyms Describe, Narrate (see describe), detail, recount, repeat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident or transaction; to give an account of.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
  • verb To give an account.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb narrate or give a detailed account of
  • verb provide commentary for a film, for example

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin narrāre, narrāt-, from gnārus, knowing; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

In English (recorded only since 1656, but initially stigmatized as 'Scottish', until the 19th century) apparently from narration

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synonyms (35)

Words with the same meaning

  1. allegorize
  2. chronicle
  3. circumstantiate
  4. delate
  5. descant
  6. describe
  7. detail
  8. dilate
  9. discourse
  10. expatiate
  11. fable
  12. fabulize
  13. fictionalize
  14. mythicize
  15. mythify
  16. mythologize
  17. novelize
  18. recite
  19. record
  20. recount
  21. rehearse
  22. relate
  23. repeat
  24. report
  25. retail
  26. retell
  27. reveal
  28. review
  29. romance
  30. state
  31. storify
  32. tell
  33. tell a story
  34. unfold
  35. unfold a tale

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. inform

same context (13)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. adieus
  2. animadvert
  3. arrange
  4. denotation
  5. deposite
  6. depredator
  7. newscast
  8. newscasts
  9. realize
  10. service(dhl
  11. snow-fall
  12. unrealized
  13. watchings

forms (3)

Forms

  1. narrated
  2. narrates
  3. narrating

relateds (5)

relateds

  1. narrater
  2. narration
  3. narrative
  4. narrator
  5. narratory

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. serrate

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