Definition of "narration" in English

noun

1. The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.

   • The film used voice-over narration to explain the story.
   • His calm narration made the documentary easy to follow.
   • The novel contains a first-person narration.

2. That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.

3. (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.