narrative

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A story or an account of connected events.

   The film tells its narrative through a series of flashbacks.

2. 2
   noun

   A way of presenting events that promotes a particular point of view.

   The campaign tried to control the narrative around the scandal.

3. 3
   adj

   Telling a story; relating to the telling of a story.

   She studied narrative poetry at university.

Borrowed from Middle Scots narrative, nerrative, from Middle French narratif, from Latin narrātīvus, from narrō (“to narrate”).

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