NARRATION: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for NARRATION?

Need another word that means the same as “narration”? Find 15 synonyms and 30 related words for “narration” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Narration” are: recital, yarn, narrative, story, tale, account, chronicle, description, portrayal, report, sketch, recitation, rehearsal, reading, commentary

Narration as a Noun

Definitions of "Narration" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “narration” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• The action or process of narrating a story.
• 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.
• The second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth.
• A commentary delivered to accompany a film, broadcast, etc.
• (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth.
• The act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events.

Synonyms of "Narration" as a noun (15 Words)

account	A client having an account with a supplier. I expected a brief account.
chronicle	A factual written account of important or historical events in the order of their occurrence. The rebels demands for personal freedom are conspicuous in the chronicles.
commentary	A descriptive spoken account (especially on a broadcast) of an event or performance as it happens. A commentary on the Old Testament.
description	The act of describing something. The emphasis was placed on explanation rather than description.
narrative	The practice or art of telling stories. Traditions of oral narrative.
portrayal	A representation by picture or portraiture. The media portrayal of immigration.
reading	The action or skill of reading. Feminist readings of Goethe.
recital	A performance of a programme of music by a soloist or small group. I gave my first recital at the Royal College.
recitation	The action of repeating something aloud from memory. The program included songs and recitations of well loved poems.
rehearsal	The action or process of rehearsing. A rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding.
report	The act of informing by verbal report. Report has it that the beetles have now virtually disappeared.
sketch	A rough or unfinished version of any creative work. A biographical sketch of Ernest Hemingway.
story	A plot or storyline. The film is based on a true story.
tale	A number or total. Tales of witches and warlocks.
yarn	A chat. A fine yarn for a lightweight garment.

Usage Examples of "Narration" as a noun

• There's no dialogue or narration.
• Moore's narration is often sarcastic.
• His narration was hesitant.
• The style of narration in the novel.

Associations of "Narration" (30 Words)

aforesaid	Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
allegory	An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor. Pilgrim s Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey.
allude	(of an artist or a work of art) recall (an earlier work or style) in such a way as to suggest a relationship with it. The photographs allude to Italian Baroque painting.
aloud	With relatively high volume. He wept aloud.
anecdotal	Characterized by or given to telling anecdotes. Anecdotal conversation.
chat	Songbirds having a chattering call. She chatted to her mother on the phone every day.
communicative	Willing, eager, or able to talk or impart information. Lew was a very communicative chap.
confabulate	Talk socially without exchanging too much information. She has lapses in attention and concentration—she may be confabulating a little.
conversation	A talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged. The two men were deep in conversation.
describe	Move in a way which follows the outline of (an imaginary geometrical figure. Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental.
description	A spoken or written account of a person, object, or event. It is laughably easy to buy drugs of all descriptions.
dialog	A conversation between two persons.
expansive	Marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur. Wine made the guest expansive.
expository	Serving to expound or set forth. Clean expository writing.
fable	A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events. The unnatural monsters of fable.
fiction	A belief or statement that is false but is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so. The notion of the country being a democracy is a polite fiction.
monologue	A long, tedious speech by one person during a conversation. He had a long and exacting monologue at the end of the film.
narrate	Narrate or give a detailed account of. The story is narrated by the heroine.
narrative	The practice or art of telling stories. A narrative poem.
orate	Talk pompously. Hamlet thinks speaks orates and acts.
read	Having a readership of a specified extent. Do you read me Over.
recapitulate	Repeat an earlier theme of a composition. Let s recapitulate the main ideas.
recitative	A vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech. Singing in recitative.
reportedly	According to what some say (used to express the speaker’s belief that the information given is not necessarily true. He was in El Salvador reportedly on his way to Texas.
soliloquy	A part of a play involving a soliloquy. In the opening soliloquy he declares his true intent.
spoken	Uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination. Sharp spoken.
story	A plot or storyline. Having such information is useful but it is not the whole story.
tale	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. A delightful children s tale.
talking	The action of talking speech or discussion. The world s greatest talking bird.
tell	A Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son’s head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap. I couldn t tell if he believed me.