​. [countable] a description of events synonym story · ​. [uncountable] the part of a novel that tells the story, rather than the dialogue · ​[countable, ...

a description of events, especially in a novel. synonym story. a gripping narrative of their journey up the Amazon.

An account of a series of events, facts, etc., given in order and with the establishing of connections between them; a narration, a story, an account. 1571.

narrative adjective /ˈnærətɪv/ /ˈnærətɪv/ [only before noun] (formal) describing events or telling a story.

A telling of some true or fictitious event or connected sequence of events, recounted by a narrator to a narratee.

​[uncountable, countable] the act or process of telling a story, especially in a novel, a film or a play. The novel constantly switches between first-person ...

the act or process of telling a story, especially in a novel, a movie, or a play. The novel constantly switches between first-person and third-person narration.

a particular way of explaining or understanding events: There was pressure on academics to construct narratives of the period that were positive.

1. (narrating) Story-telling, or the communicative act or process of relating a sequence of events or giving an account of a situation.

Two branches of this 'narratology' may be distinguished. The one is oriented towards the 'story' as signified ('what happened').