narration
English
Etymology
From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narrātiō.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /nəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, [nəˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌnæɹˈeɪ.ʃən/, [ˌnæɹˈeɪ.ʃn̩], /nɛɹˈeɪ.ʃən/, [nɛɹˈeɪ.ʃn̩]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /nəˈɹæɪ.ʃən/, [nəˈɹæɪ.ʃn̩]
- 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.
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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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See also
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “narration”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin narrātiōnem. By surface analysis, narrer + -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na.ʁa.sjɔ̃/
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Noun
narration f (plural narrations)
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Further reading
- “narration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
Noun
narration f (plural narrations)
- narration (account; story)