Synonyms for narration
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
The novel contains a first-person narration.
- n. 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.
Related words
- Word family
- narrate narrative narrator
- Phrases
- oblique narration
Forms
- Plural
- narrations → narratives, stories, tales, chronicles…
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If it passes close limits of brevity, it ceases to be an anecdote, and becomes a narrative or narration.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- description Ziri gave the police a description of what he saw.
- narrative The mystery contains more dialogue than narrative.
- tale Sami has been living a fairy-tale life with Layla.
- chronicle Tom is a columnist for the Boston Chronicle.
- telling There is no telling who will be sent in his place.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| narration | rising | |
| description | steady | |
| narrative | rising | |
| tale | rising | |
| chronicle | steady | |
| telling | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- tale1, yarn1
- 5 letters
- story2
- 6 letters
- report2
- 7 letters
- history3, account2, telling2, recital3
- 8 letters
- relation3
- 9 letters
- narrative3, chronicle3, rehearsal3
- 11 letters
- description3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (story2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- narration
- Italiano
- narrazione
- Català
- narració