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