narrate
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
narrate
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}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: To relate; recount; detail; describe.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "narrate":
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
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