NARRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does narrate mean? 

• NARRATE (verb)
  The verb NARRATE has 2 senses:

1. provide commentary for a film, for example

2. narrate or give a detailed account of

  Familiarity information: NARRATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NARRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they narrate    ... he / she / it narrates   
Past simple: narrated   
Past participle: narrated   
-ing form: narrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide commentary for a film, for example

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "narrate" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

narration (the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events)

narration (a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Narrate or give a detailed account of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

narrate; recite; recount; tell

Context example:

The father told a story to his child

Hypernyms (to "narrate" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "narrate"):

relate (give an account of)

crack (tell spontaneously)

yarn (tell or spin a yarn)

rhapsodise; rhapsodize (recite a rhapsody)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence example:

They won't narrate the story

Derivation:

narration ((rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth)

narration (the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events)

narration (a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program)

narrative (consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story)

narrator (someone who tells a story)

 Context examples 

Nothing could be more natural than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. Lestrade of Scotland Yard.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And he briefly narrated what the maid had seen, and showed the broken stick.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It made a great impression on me, and I remembered it a long time afterwards; as I shall have occasion to narrate when the time comes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the event of your acceding to my request it is probable that I shall have to narrate them to you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Judge Scott shook his head sadly at luncheon table, when his son narrated the lesson he had given White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

About a week subsequently to the incidents above narrated, Miss Temple, who had written to Mr. Lloyd, received his answer: it appeared that what he said went to corroborate my account.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A comprehensive narrated account of a document.

(Document Detailed Description, NCI Thesaurus)

The latter part of his tale had kindled anew in me the anger that had died away while he narrated his peaceful life among the cottagers, and as he said this I could no longer suppress the rage that burned within me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

'You could almost narrate the body changes and narrate the dream. She sees a crab and her color starts to change a little bit, then she turns all dark, octopuses will do that when they leave the bottom.' 'This is a camouflage, like she's just subdued a crab and she's just going to sit there and eat it, and she doesn't want anyone to notice her.' 'It's a very unusual behavior to see the color come and go on her mantle like that, just to be able to see all the different color patterns flashing one after the other, you don't normally see that when an animal's sleeping.'

(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

To him Aylward narrated the good hap which had befallen them; but the smith, when his eyes lit upon the relics, leaned up against his anvil and laughed, with his hand to his side, until the tears hopped down his sooty cheeks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)