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narration - 19 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | narration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description, reading |
| Synonyms: | account, anecdote, explanation, narrative, recital, rehearsal, relation, report, story, tale, telling, yarn*, recountal, recounting, storytelling, voice-over |
| Antonyms: | concealment, suppression |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | anecdote |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interesting or amusing story |
| Synonyms: | episode, fairy tale*, fish story*, gag*, incident, narration, narrative, recital, relation, reminiscence, short story, sketch, tale, tall tale*, yarn, chestnut*, long and short of it, old chestnut, tall story |
| Notes: | an antidote is a remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison; an agent is a force or substance that relieves or counteracts; an anecdote is a short account of an interesting or humorous incident |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | announcement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proclamation, declaration |
| Synonyms: | advertisement, advice, briefing, broadcast, broadcasting, bulletin, communication, disclosure, dissemination, edict, exposition, expression, intimation, message, narration, news, notice, notification, prediction, publication, recitation, release, report, reporting, revelation, statement, communiqué, divulgence, exposing, promulgation, publishing |
| Main Entry: | chronicle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, narrative |
| Synonyms: | annals, archives, diary, history, journal, narration, recital, record, register, report, story, version, prehistory, recountal |
| Main Entry: | commentary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | analysis |
| Synonyms: | annotation, appreciation, comment, consideration, criticism, critique, description, discourse, exegesis, explanation, exposition, gloss, narration, notes, observation, remark, review, treatise, obiter dictum, voice-over |
| Main Entry: | confession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admittance of information |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, admission, affirmation, allowance, assertion, avowal, concession, declaration, disclosure, enumeration, exposé, exposure, narration, proclamation, profession, publication, recitation, relation, revelation, song*, squawk*, squeal*, statement, story, telling, utterance, assenting, disclosing, divulgence, making public, owning up, revealing, unbosoming |
| Antonyms: | concealment, cover, denial, secret, disavowal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | explanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarification; reason |
| Synonyms: | account, annotation, answer, breakdown, brief, cause, comment, commentary, confession, definition, demonstration, description, details, display, elucidation, evidence, example, excuse, exposition, expression, gloss, history, illustration, information, interpretation, justification, meaning, mitigation, motive, narration, note, recital, rendition, report, resolution, sense, showing, significance, specification, statement, story, summary, tale, talking, telling, vindication, writing, explication |
| Antonyms: | complication |
| Main Entry: | narrative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story, tale |
| Synonyms: | account, anecdote, book, chronicle, description, detail, fiction, history, line, narration, plot, recount, report, statement, version, yarn*, chronology, long and short of it, potboiler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | news |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information, revelation |
| Synonyms: | account, advice, announcement, broadcast, bulletin, cable, cognizance, communication, copy, data, description, disclosure, discovery, dispatch, enlightenment, exposé, hearsay, intelligence, knowledge, leak, message, narration, news flash, recital, recognition, release, report, rumor, scandal, scoop*, specification, statement, story, telecast, telegram, telling, tidings*, word*, communiqué, eye-opener, front-page news, headlines, itemization, lowdown, particularization, the goods |
| Antonyms: | history |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recital |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | narrative, rendering |
| Synonyms: | account, concert, description, enumeration, fable, musical, narration, performance, portrayal, presentation, reading, recapitulation, recitation, rehearsal, relation, repetition, report, statement, story, tale, telling, detailing, musicale, recountal, recounting |
| Main Entry: | recitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reading to audience |
| Synonyms: | address, appeal, delivery, discourse, discussion, exercise, lecture, monologue, narration, oration, passage, performance, piece, proclamation, recital, rehearsal, report, selection, speaking, talk, telling, declaiming, discoursing, holding forth, narrating, playing, recounting, rendering, soliloquizing |
| Main Entry: | representation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description |
| Synonyms: | copy, delegation, delineation, depiction, design, duplicate, enactment, exhibition, illustration, image, imitation, impersonation, impression, likeness, narration, personification, portrayal, reproduction, adumbration |
| Main Entry: | account |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written description of past events |
| Synonyms: | bulletin, chronicle, detail, explanation, history, make*, narration, narrative, recital, report, run-down, score, story, tab, take, tale, version, ABCs, annal, blow by blow, lowdown, play by play, the picture, the whole picture |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | description |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | brief, chronicle, confession, declaration, definition, delineation, depiction, detail, explanation, fingerprint, information, make, monograph, narration, narrative, picture, portrayal, recital, recitation, record, rehearsal, report, representation, rundown, sketch, specification, statement, story, summary, tale, version, vignette, yarn, ABCs, blow by blow, characterization, explication, portraiture, presentment, recountal, summarization, writeup |
| Antonyms: | misrepresentation |
| Main Entry: | expression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbalization |
| Synonyms: | announcement, argument, articulation, assertion, commentary, communication, declaration, definition, delivery, diction, elucidation, emphasis, execution, explanation, exposition, idiom, interpretation, intonation, issue, language, locution, mention, narration, phrase, phraseology, pronouncement, remark, rendition, speaking, speech, statement, style, term, utterance, vent, voice, word, writ, asseveration, choice of words, enunciation, formulation, phrasing, set phrase, turn of phrase, voicing |
| Main Entry: | report |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, story |
| Synonyms: | address, announcement, article, brief, broadcast, cable, chronicle, communication, declaration, description, detail, digest, dispatch, handout, history, information, message, narration, narrative, news, note, opinion, outline, paper, picture, piece, précis, proclamation, pronouncement, résumé, recital, record, relation, release, rundown, scoop*, statement, summary, tale, telegram, tidings, version, wire, word*, write-up, blow by blow, communique, hot wire |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, news |
| Synonyms: | adventure, allegory, anecdote, apologue, article, autobiography, beat, biography, book, chronicle, cliffhanger*, comedy, description, drama, epic, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, gag, history, information, legend, memoir, myth, narration, narrative, novel, parable, recital, record, relation, report, romance, saga, scoop*, sequel, serial, spiel*, tale, tragedy, version, yarn*, conte, folktale, long and short of it, news item, nonfiction, old saw, potboiler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story |
| Synonyms: | account, anecdote, fable, fairy tale, fiction, folk tale, legend, myth, narration, narrative, novel, relation, report, romance, saga, short story, yarn |
| Main Entry: | history |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chronicle of events |
| Synonyms: | account, annals, autobiography, biography, diary, epic, journal, narration, narrative, recapitulation, recital, record, relation, report, saga, story, tale, version, memoirs, prehistory |
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