narrative

Definition

Examples

The report includes a short narrative describing how the accident happened.

Word Family

Synonyms

• accounta record or narrative description of past events
• storya 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
• chroniclea record or narrative description of past events

Collocations

• Easy simple narrative
  describing simple narrative (any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties)
• Medium craft a coherent corporate narrative for investors
  to craft a coherent corporate narrative for investors, meaning to make by hand and with much skill
• Hard challenge the prevailing macro-economic narrative
  to challenge the prevailing macro-economic narrative, meaning to take exception to
• Very Hard weave a seductive but entirely fabricated narrative
  to weave a seductive but entirely fabricated narrative, meaning to interlace by or as if by weaving