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narrative
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story; "narrative poetry" n. 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; "his narrative ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A narrative or story is any report of connected events, real or imaginary , presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, and/or still or moving images . Narrative can be organized in a number of thematic and/or formal categories: non-fiction (such ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French narratif , from Late Latin narrativus "suited to narration," from Latin narrat- , stem of narrare (see narration ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Telling a story. 2 Overly talkative; garrulous. 3 Of or relating to narration. n. 1 The systematic recitation of an event or series of events. 2 That which is narrated. 3 A representation of an event or story.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Narrative \Nar"ra*tive\, n. That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story. Cyntio was much taken with my narrative. --Tatler. Syn: Account; recital; rehearsal; relation; narration; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a lyric/narrative/epic etc poem (= a poem in a particular style ) ▪ the epic Greek poem, The Odyssey COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE grand ▪ For the grand narrative of History was always too big for its boots. ▪ ...
Usage examples of narrative.
I have expiated with pleasure on the first steps of the crusaders, as they paint the manners and character of Europe: but I shall abridge the tedious and uniform narrative of their blind achievements, which were performed by strength and are described by ignorance.
They appeal with confidence to the Persian history of Sherefeddin Ali, which has been given to our curiosity in a French version, and from which I shall collect and abridge a more specious narrative of this memorable transaction.
Lenfant has abridged and compared the original narratives of the adherents of Urban and Clement, of the Italians and Germans, the French and Spaniards.
The St Vaast Annals cease about 900, and the monk of Reims, Flodoard, does not begin his narrative until some twenty years later.
Fictional apocryphal accounts from the second century contain all kinds of flowery narratives, in which Jesus comes out of the tomb in glory and power, with everybody seeing him, including the priests, Jewish authorities, and Roman guards.
A fabulous narrative is introduced here, that, when the king of the Veientians was offering sacrifice, the voice of the aruspex, declaring that the victory was given to him who should cut up the entrails of that victim, having been heard in the mine, incited the Roman soldiers to burst open the mine, carry off the entrails, and bring them to the dictator.
No doubt the charts were those of the austral latitudes, and the books were narratives of the precursors of the Jane in those mysterious regions of the south.
The first-person author acknowledges the lack of narrative completeness, while the plural pronoun immediately following suggests authorial objectivity and stature.
The experiencing self in his autobiographical narrative is disciplined by an overarching intelligence that keeps directing the storytelling toward the pole of analysis.
Morgan could decipher the gestures sufficiently to understand at which points in the narrative the boojum arrived in orbit around Kirsi, destroyed that world, and then advanced on the Almiran fighters.
It is Bouchet in his seventeenth-century narrative who invents the circumstantial account of the proceeding.
A day or two after Myrtle Hazard returned to the village, Master Byles Gridley, accompanied by Gifted Hopkins, followed her, as has been already mentioned, to the same scene of the principal events of this narrative.
Mimesis and diegesis need each other, and often work together so that the join between them can be difficult to discern exactly, but it is easy to see how fundamental they are as the building blocks of narrative.
Even his narrative must be full of epigrams to avoid the one deadly sin of dulness, and his language must be decorous even at the price of being sometimes emasculated.
SEVERAL times in the course of this narrative I have hinted at an idea corresponding to the above French heading, and now feel it incumbent upon me to devote a whole chapter to that idea, which was one of the most ruinous, lying notions which ever became engrafted upon my life by my upbringing and social milieu.