narration

English

Etymology

Latin narrātiō.

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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 講述 (cmn), 讲述 (cmn) (jiǎngshù)

• Dutch: vertellen (nl)
• Finnish: kertomus (fi), kuvaus (fi)
• French: narration (fr) f

• German: Erzählung (de) f
• Irish: ríomh (ga) m
• Japanese: ナレーション (ja) (narēshon), 叙述 (ja) (じょじゅつ, jojutsu)
• Northern Sami: muitalus
• Russian: повествование (ru) (povestvovánije) n, изложение (ru) (izložénije) n, рассказ (ru) (rasskáz) m
• Serbo-Croatian: pripovijédānje (sh) n

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

• Finnish: (orderly recital of a story) kerronta
• Russian: рассказ (ru) (rasskáz) m

• Serbo-Croatian: prȉpovijētka (sh) f, prȉpovijēst (sh)

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

• Russian: дикторский текст (ru) (díktorskij tekst) m

References

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

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French

Etymology

Latin narrātiō.

Noun

narration f (plural narrations)

1. narration (account; story)
2. narration (literary device)
3. (rhetoric) narration

Related terms

• narrer

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Middle French

Etymology

Latin narrātiō.

Noun

narration f (plural narrations)

1. narration (account; story)