narrate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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to tell (a story); relate
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to speak in accompaniment of (a film, television programme, etc)
Related Words
See describe.
Other Word Forms
- misnarrate verb
- narratable adjective
- narrater noun
- narrator noun
- unnarratable adjective
- unnarrated adjective
- well-narrated adjective
Etymology
Origin of narrate
First recorded in 1650–60; from Latin narrātus (past participle of narrāre ”to relate, tell, say”), equivalent to nār(us) “knowing, acquainted with” (variant of gnārus; cognition ) + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Jonas wrote the pilot several years ago without a particular actor in mind for the lead character, who narrates the novel as if she were delivering an ongoing monologue.
From Los Angeles Times
“When this work makes you fall apart,” says J.D., narrating, “someone is there to patch you up.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Kin” deftly alternates points of view between Vernice and Annie, narrating events by way of a vernacular that would be at home on a front porch rocking chair.
From Los Angeles Times
"The story is narrated by Erivo, with only snippets in dialogue," she explained, "which gives the sense of an audiobook accompanied by screen illustrations."
From BBC
And it wasn’t lost on Rove that the spindly, excitable man narrating that story for them in a thick Hungarian accent “was once a 16-year-old picking up paving blocks and heaving them at Soviet tanks.”
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