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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NARRATE, v.t.
1. To tell, rehearse or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of any event or transaction , or any series of incidents.
2. To write, as the particulars of a story or history, We never say, to narrate a sentence, a sermon or an oration, but we narrate a story, or the particular events which have fallen under our observation, or which we have heard related.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: provide commentary for a film, for example
2: narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" [syn: tell, narrate, recount, recite]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (narrated; narrating) Etymology: Latin narratus, past participle of narrare, from Latin gnarus knowing; akin to Latin gnoscere, noscere to know — more at know Date: 1656 to tell (as a story) in detail; also to provide spoken commentary for (as a movie or television show) • narrator noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also absol.) 1 give a continuous story or account of. 2 provide a spoken commentary or accompaniment for (a film etc.). Derivatives: narratable adj. narration n. Etymology: L narrare narrat-

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Narrate Nar*rate", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Narrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Narrating.] [L. narratus, p. p. of narrare to narrate, prob. for gnarigare, fr. gnarus knowing. See Ignore, Know.] To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident or transaction; to give an account of. Syn: To relate; recount; detail; describe.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(narrates, narrating, narrated) 1. If you narrate a story, you tell it from your own point of view. (FORMAL) The book is narrated by Richard Papen, a Californian boy. VERB: V n • narration Its story-within-a-story method of narration is confusing. N-UNCOUNT • narrator (narrators) Jules, the story's narrator, is an actress in her late thirties. N-COUNT 2. The person who narrates a film or programme speaks the words which accompany the pictures, but does not appear in it. She also narrated a documentary about the Kirov Ballet School. VERB: V n, also V • narration As the crew gets back from lunch, we can put your narration on it right away. • narrator (narrators) ...the narrator of the documentary. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Relate, recite, recount, rehearse, tell, detail, describe, give an account of.

Moby Thesaurus

allegorize, chronicle, descant, describe, detail, dilate, discourse, expatiate, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, mythicize, mythify, mythologize, novelize, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, repeat, report, retail, retell, reveal, review, romance, state, storify, tell, tell a story, unfold, unfold a tale