narrate

Other forms of narrate

past tense

narrated·

present participle

narrating·

third person

narrates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about narrate

What does narrate mean?

narrate means "provide commentary for a film, for example". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in narrate?

narrate has 2 syllables: nar-rate. The stress falls on "nar". In IPA it is /ˈnɛˌɹeɪt/.

What is another word for narrate?

Close synonyms include tell, recount, recite. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is narrate a common word?

narrate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with narrate?

8 words rhyme with narrate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.