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English noun: narration | |||
| 1. | narration (communication) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | ||
| Samples | His narrative was interesting. Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children. | ||
| Synonyms | narrative, story, tale | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | content, message, subject matter, substance | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale, folk tale, folktale, nursery rhyme, sob story, sob stuff, tall tale, tearjerker | ||
| Instance hyponym | Canterbury Tales | ||
| 2. | narration (communication) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | ||
| Samples | His narration was hesitant. | ||
| Synonyms | recital, yarn | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | account, report | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | recounting, relation, telling | ||
| Part holonym | body, close, closing, conclusion, end, ending, introduction | ||
| 3. | narration (communication) (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | section, subdivision | ||
| Domain category | rhetoric | ||
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