Narrates

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To outline a series of events clearly through speech or text To express a sequence of happenings in a detailed narrative format To deliver a structured telling of occurrences as either a story or an account of experiences
2. To recount events or a story by speaking or writing them down
3. To provide a spoken or written account that describes a sequence of events

Etymology: "Narrates" is the third-person singular present form of "narrate," so its history is that of the verb itself. "Narrate" was recorded in English only from 1656, and for much of the following two centuries it was marked as a Scottish usage, a label that suggests it struck many English writers as a regional or unusual choice. It is apparently derived from "narration," the noun for an account or telling, which means the verb grew out of a word for the act of telling rather than the other way round. The noun behind it comes from Latin "narrare," meaning "to tell" or "to relate," itself related to "gnarus," "knowing" or "acquainted with." That link is a useful reminder that telling a story was once tied to knowing it firsthand. English took the verb later, and its earlier path into the language was more localised than its modern neutral sound suggests.

Synonyms: recounts, describes, tells, relates, chronicles

Antonyms: conceal, suppress, withhold, omit, ignore