From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narrātiō.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, [nəˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩]

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌnæɹˈeɪ.ʃən/, [ˌnæɹˈeɪ.ʃn̩], /nɛɹˈeɪ.ʃən/, [nɛɹˈeɪ.ʃn̩]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /nəˈɹæɪ.ʃən/, [nəˈɹæɪ.ʃn̩]
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

narration (countable and uncountable, plural narrations)

1. The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
2. That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
3. (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

• oblique narration

• narrate
• narrative
• narrator

• → Japanese: ナレーション (narēshon)
• → Korean: 내레이션 (naereisyeon)

• storytelling

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “narration”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• atranorin

Learned borrowing from Latin narrātiōnem. By surface analysis, narrer +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /na.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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narration f (plural narrations)

1. narration (account; story)
2. narration (literary device)
3. (rhetoric) narration

• narratologie

• narrateur

• “narration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin narrātiō.

narration f (plural narrations)

1. narration (account; story)