verb ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing. transitive

   "narrate a story"

2. 2
   narrate or give a detailed account of wordnet
3. 3
   To give an account.

   "narrate the meeting"

4. 4
   provide commentary for a film, for example wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

tellreporttellallegorizechronicledepict

Example

More examples

"People sometimes narrate their actions to themselves as a running commentary."

Etymology

In English (recorded only since 1656, but until the 19th century stigmatized as 'Scottish') apparently from narration.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.