narration

Other forms of narration

plural

narrations·

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 narration

What does narration mean?

narration means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in narration?

narration has 3 syllables: nar-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /nɛˈɹeɪʃən/.

What is another word for narration?

Close synonyms include narrative, story, tale, recital, yarn. 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 narration a common word?

narration is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 narration?

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