n. The art of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.n. 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.n. Specifically In rhetoric, that part of an oration in which the speaker makes his statement of facts.n. Synonyms Account, Relation, Narrative, etc. See account.