to narrate
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4.0
- verb
- /nəˈreɪt/
:
narrar
- Do you ever feel like you're narrating your own life watching it play in front of you like an episode of television?
- narrate a story
- narrate events
- narrated by a narrator
Well, Josh likes to come in and start narrating my life, right?
- Well, Josh likes to come in and start narrating my life, right?
- I also think people need to stop narrating that they're busy.
- So John Goodman is supposed to narrate in New Orleans.
- And more than that, a lot of them narrate as they create.
- But I don't hear Morgan Freeman narrating our sex.
- Have you ever been around someone who narrates your experience?
- It depends who narrated the chain of those sayings.
- He's he's going to tell us that the action that's being narrated actually presented in the story.
- Something narrated by yours truly, Matthew Peacock.
- OK, Narrating experiences in prison and jail.
- And it came up with a deepfake of Bourdain's voice to narrate his own emails.
- Of course he is outside of the narrative, though perhaps narrating it as the narrator himself.
Examples
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And yes, there is an audio book and yes, I did narrate it myself.
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The teacher will narrate the story to the class, bringing the characters to life.
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And more than that, a lot of them narrate as they create.
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The question is, for whom am I narrating this?
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Aware of their audience of one, Frank and Bea narrate the family legacy with a sense of critical distance.
Academic text (2017) -
Bea then takes an extended turn to narrate a disturbing experience she had as a young woman.
Academic text (2017) -
Martin, without revealing his source, narrated what he had been told that morning.
Fiction book (1994) -
Fortunately, he did not die and was able to narrate the tragic story to the villagers.
Fiction book (1999) -
James Franco narrates it and what a treat that is.
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In pop songs, the verse's lyrics often narrate the story, while the chorus crystallizes the theme.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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1.0
Talk about events or stories
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1.1
To describe things that happened, real or made up, to other people
83
4.1
To tell someone about something you experienced in detail
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1.4
Talk about events, real or imagined, to other people
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3.3
List facts or items one after another
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3.5
Say a story about something that happened or show signs of it
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7.0
To describe an event while it happens on radio or TV
How Detailed
70
5.7
83
4.1
59
4.0
58
2.9
∞
1.0
951
1.6
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
narrate = narr + ate
The verb is built from the Latinate combining form 'narr-' plus the verb-forming suffix '-ate'; because 'narr-' is not a standalone English word, learners may not reliably infer the meaning from components alone, though related forms (narration, narrator) make the relation somewhat recoverable.
Etymology
Narrate comes from the Latin word narrare, which means 'to tell'. Think of narrator and narrative, which share the same root, so to narrate is simply to tell a story or describe events, like the voice that guides a film.