different between narration vs kindred

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)

English

Etymology

From Middle English kindrede, alteration (with epenthetic d) of kinrede, cünreden (“kindred”), from Old English cynr?d, cynr?den (“kindred, family, generation, posterity, stock, species”), from cynn (“kind, sort, quality, race, family, rank, gender”) + -r?den (“condition, state”), equivalent to kin +? -red. More at kin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?k?ndr?d, ?k?ndr?d, IPA^(key): /?k?nd??d/, /?k?nd??d/

Noun

kindred (countable and uncountable, plural kindreds)

1. (often plural only) Distant and close relatives, collectively; kin. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (often plural only) People of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren.
3. (countable) A grouping of relatives.
4. (uncountable) Blood relationship.
5. (uncountable) Affinity, likeness.
6. (countable, Germanic paganism) A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry or Ásatrú.

   Synonyms: hearth, garth, stead

Synonyms

• (people of same ethnic descent): brethren, kinship

Translations

Adjective

kindred (not comparable)

1. Of the same nature, or of similar character.
   • 1924, Aristotle, Metaphysics, translated by W. D. Ross, Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001, book 1, part 1.

     We have said in the Ethics what the difference is between art and science and the other kindred faculties;

2. Connected, related, cognate, akin.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:akin

Translations

Anagrams

• drinked