narrative

EnglishEdit

narrative (comparative more narrative, superlative most narrative)

Telling a story.
Overly talkative; garrulous.
- 1715, Homer; [Alexander] Pope, transl., “(please specify the book of the Iliad)”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 670734254:
  
  But wise through time, and narrative with age.
Of or relating to narration.
the narrative thrust of a film

telling a story

overly talkative

of or relating to narration

narrative (countable and uncountable, plural narratives)

The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
That which is narrated.
A representation of an event or story.
- 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎^[1]:
  Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
(creative writing) A manner of conveying a story, fictional or otherwise, in a body of work.
The plot is full of holes, but the narrative is extremely compelling.
- 2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet‎^[2], volume 7, DOI:10.11588/rel.2015.0.18512, page 175:
  The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.

systematic recitation of an event

Greek: αφήγημα (el) n (afígima)
Hungarian: narratíva
Italian: descrizione (it) f
Japanese: 物語 (ja) (ものがたり, monogatari)
Khmer: រឿងតំណាល (rɨəŋ tɑmnaal), និទានកថា (ni’tien ka’tʰaa)
Korean: 설화 (ko) (seolhwa)
Latvian: stāstījums m, stāstīšana f
Polish: narracja (pl) f
Portuguese: narrativa (pt) f
Russian: повествова́ние (ru) n (povestvovánije), расска́з (ru) m (rasskáz), наррати́в (ru) m (narratív)
Spanish: narrativa (es) f
Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎒𐎔𐎗 (mspr)
Vietnamese: kể chuyện, tường thuật (vi)

which is narrated

a representation of an event or story

a way of storytelling

narrative at OneLook Dictionary Search
narrative in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
narrative in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.