narration [na-rey-shuhn] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
narration [na-rey-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: description, reading
Synonyms: account, anecdote, explanation, narrative, recital, recountal, recounting, rehearsal, relation, report, story, storytelling, tale, telling, voice-over, yarn
Antonyms: concealment, suppression
Main Entry: anecdote
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: interesting or amusing story
Synonyms: chestnut, episode, fairy tale, fish story, gag, incident, long and short of it, narration, narrative, old chestnut, recital, relation, reminiscence, short story, sketch, tale, tall story, tall tale, yarn
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
Main Entry: announcement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: proclamation, declaration
Synonyms: advertisement, advice, briefing, broadcast, broadcasting, bulletin, communication, communiqué, disclosure, dissemination, divulgence, edict, exposing, exposition, expression, intimation, message, narration, news, notice, notification, prediction, promulgation, publication, publishing, recitation, release, report, reporting, revelation, statement
Example Sentences
  • He started his camera and recorded a narration of his extraordinary attempt to walk out.
  • In the film, the narration comes from the penguins' perspective-we're hearing their thoughts.
  • And when you load up a game and it displays the name of the area you're in, that also has narration over it.
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Main Entry: chronicle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: account, narrative
Synonyms: annals, archives, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version
Main Entry: commentary
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: analysis
Synonyms: annotation, appreciation, comment, consideration, criticism, critique, description, discourse, exegesis, explanation, exposition, gloss, narration, notes, obiter dictum, observation, remark, review, treatise, voice-over
Main Entry: confession
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: admittance of information
Synonyms: acknowledgment, admission, affirmation, allowance, assenting, assertion, avowal, concession, declaration, disclosing, disclosure, divulgence, enumeration, exposure, exposé, making public, narration, owning up, proclamation, profession, publication, recitation, relation, revealing, revelation, song*, squawk, squeal, statement, story, telling, unbosoming, utterance
Antonyms: concealment, cover, denial, disavowal, secret
Main Entry: description
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: account in speech, writing
Synonyms: ABCs, blow by blow, brief, characterization, chronicle, confession, declaration, definition, delineation, depiction, detail, explanation, explication, fingerprint, information, make, monograph, narration, narrative, picture, portraiture, portrayal, presentment, recital, recitation, record, recountal, rehearsal, report, representation, rundown, sketch, specification, statement, story, summarization, summary, tale, version, vignette, writeup, yarn
Antonyms: misrepresentation
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, explication, 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
Antonyms: complication
Main Entry: expression
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: verbalization
Synonyms: announcement, argument, articulation, assertion, asseveration, choice of words, commentary, communication, declaration, definition, delivery, diction, elucidation, emphasis, enunciation, execution, explanation, exposition, formulation, idiom, interpretation, intonation, issue, language, locution, mention, narration, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pronouncement, remark, rendition, set phrase, speaking, speech, statement, style, term, turn of phrase, utterance, vent, voice, voicing, word, writ
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