narrative
/ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
A representation of an event or story in a way to promote a certain point of view.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "But wise through time, and narrative with age."
- "the narrative thrust of a film"
- "There is a deep divide in our species. On one side, the narrators: those who are indeed intensely narrative, self-storying, Homeric, in their sense of life and self, whether they look to the past or the future."
- "changing, controlling the narrative"
- "Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer."
- "[Alexandra] Bell challenges the dominant coverage of Brown’s killing with the aim of introducing “a perspective and a narrative which is probably how a lot of people from these communities saw it go down”."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Scots narrative, nerrative, from Middle French narratif, from Latin narrātīvus, from narrō (“to narrate”). By surface analysis, Latin narr- + -ate + -ive.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵneh₃-, narratif, narrātīvus
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/