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narration

narration

23 3.4
Telling a story or describing events
  • noun
  • /nəˈreɪʃən/
translation icon : narración
  • Her captivating narration kept the audience engaged throughout the entire story.
  • audio narration
  • mode of narration
  • third-person narration

And they wanted me to do the, the, the narration of the science show.

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Examples

  • I uploaded a video with audio narration to YouTube and that happened to take off for me.

  • Excuse me, but you're interrupting my narration.

  • And they wanted me to do the, the, the narration of the science show.

  • And in her narration it says she knew the truth.

  • Just today I received my second narration job, so there are now two books in the works.

  • Just today I received my second narration job so there are now two books in the works.

  • Your students can take multiple takes of their narration and edit them together.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The narration you will hear spoken consists of quotes... from the text of the book itself.

  • Some videos include music, narration, and different fictive elements that refer to the stories being told.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Throughout the night, he keeps up a steady, instructive narration: "This boy is as tough as nails."

    Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

story
vsnarration
1.0

An account of events told to entertain or inform

is the active process of telling events not the content for entertainment
report
vsnarration
1.3

A written or spoken account that gives information about something

is the general act of telling events not the formal document or story
account
vsnarration
466 3.0

A report that describes what happened

is the act of telling events as a process not only a report
narrative
vsnarration
336 3.9

A story that describes connected events

is the process of telling events not just the finished imaginative account
telling
vsnarration
92 2.7

The act of saying what happened or giving facts to others

is the deliberate continuous action of relating events
relation
vsnarration
38 3.9

A spoken or written description of what happened

is the active process of telling events rather than a finished account
retelling
vsnarration
13 3.0

A new version of a story that has been told before

is the general act of telling events not specifically repeating earlier versions
recounting
vsnarration
3 3.8

An account of events told in detail

focuses on the ongoing process of telling events rather than only detail
narratio
vsnarration
9.9

A spoken or written story that explains events

is the act or process of telling events not only producing an account

How Detailed

narration
23 3.4
account
466 3.0
summary
3.3

Surface Forms

narration singular
narrations plural

Morphology

narration = narrate (transparent) = narrate + ion

A standard nominalization of the verb 'narrate' with '-ion', meaning 'the act or process of narrating'.

Etymology

Narration comes from the Latin verb narrare, which means 'to tell', and you can see the same root in narrator and narrative. So narration is simply the act of 'telling' a story or describing a series of events.