different between annals vs narration

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French annales, from Latin annales libri (“chronicles”), from annalis (“pertaining to a year”), from annus (“year”) + libri, genitive of liber (“book”). Compare with annual.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æn.?lz/

Noun

annals

1. plural of annal

Noun

annals pl (plural only)

1. A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
2. Historical records; chronicles; history.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
3. A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.

Synonyms

• history

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ann?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?n?nals/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /an?nals/

Noun

annals m pl (plural only)

1. annals

Related terms

• any
• anyal

Further reading

• “annals” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “annals” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “annals” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “annals” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

English

Etymology

From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narr?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n???e?.??n/, [?n???e?.?n?]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n????e?.??n/, [?n????e?.?n?]
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

narration (countable and uncountable, plural narrations)

1. The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
2. That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
3. (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

Related terms

• narrate
• narrative
• narrator

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????? (nar?shon)

Translations

References

• narration in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• atranorin

French

Etymology

Latin narr?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

narration f (plural narrations)

1. narration (account; story)
2. narration (literary device)
3. (rhetoric) narration

Related terms

• narrer

Further reading

• “narration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

Latin narr?ti?.

Noun

narration f (plural narrations)

1. narration (account; story)