English > narrate: 2 senses > verb 2, communication| Meaning | 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 |
