narration
nounUK /nəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ · US /ˌnæɹˈeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narrātiō. By surface analysis, Latin narr- + -ate + -ion.
1
The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
- The film used voice-over narration to explain the story.
- His calm narration made the documentary easy to follow.
1 more example
- The novel contains a first-person narration.
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.
- Synonyms
- relation
- Derived terms
- metanarration, misnarration, narrational, oblique narration, renarration
- Related terms
- narrate, narrative, narrator, storytelling