Narrative

Definition of narrative:

part of speech: adjective

Narrating: giving an account of any occurrence: inclined to narration: story- telling.

part of speech: noun

Narrating.

part of speech: noun

That which is narrated: a continued account of any occurrence: story.

part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, story- telling.

part of speech: noun

The art of storytelling; recital of a story or event; a story or tale.

part of speech: noun

An account; recital.

Usage examples for narrative:

• In his case it has unfortunately become a critical fashion to set him side by side with the greatest master of narrative fiction the world has ever seen. "My Contemporaries In Fiction", David Christie Murray.

• She was scared half out of her wits by what happened afterward, and may have got mixed up in her narrative "The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories", Nicholas Carter.

• The others spared him any narrative of their feelings; and he, himself, related nothing. "Paris From the "Three Cities"", Emile Zola.

• She let go of the waiter's tail and resumed her narrative "Mortal Coils", Aldous Huxley.