English > narrate: 2 senses > verb 2, communicationMeaning | narrate or give a detailed account of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
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Model | They won't narrate the story |
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Synonyms | tell, recount, recite |
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Narrower | crack | tell spontaneously |
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relate | Give an account of |
rhapsodize, rhapsodise | recite a rhapsody |
yarn | tell or spin a yarn |
Broader | inform | Impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to |
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Spanish | contar, explicar, narrar, recontar, relatar |
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Catalan | contar, explicar, narrar |
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Adjectives | narrative | consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story |
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Nouns | narration | the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events |
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narration | a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events |
narration | (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth |
narrator | someone who tells a story |