Exact Match:
- anecdote
- short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- narration
collapse - (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth
- the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant" related words >
- account,
- anecdotage,
- anecdote,
- chronicle,
- chronicling,
- describing,
- description,
- detailing,
- epic,
- epos,
- narrative,
- portrayal,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- recording,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- rehearsal,
- relating,
- relation,
- report,
- retelling,
- revelation,
- review,
- saga,
- story,
- tale,
- tale-telling,
- telling,
- unfolding,
- yarn,
- yarn spinning
- narrative
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- a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
- consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story; "narrative poetry" related words >
- Alcaic,
- Anacreontic,
- Castalian,
- Homeric,
- Hudibrastic,
- Pierian,
- Pindaric,
- Theocritean,
- account,
- anecdotage,
- anecdotal,
- anecdote,
- anecdotic,
- bardic,
- bucolic,
- chronicle,
- chronicling,
- description,
- didactic,
- dithyrambic,
- dramatic,
- eclogic,
- elegiac,
- epic,
- epos,
- heroic,
- history,
- idyllic,
- mock-heroic,
- narration,
- narrational,
- pastoral,
- poetic,
- poetico-mystical,
- poetico-mythological,
- poetico-philosophic,
- poetlike,
- portrayal,
- recital,
- record,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- rehearsal,
- relation,
- report,
- retelling,
- revelation,
- review,
- rhapsodic,
- runic,
- saga,
- sapphic,
- skaldic,
- statement,
- storied,
- storified,
- story,
- tale,
- tale-telling,
- telling,
- version,
- yarn,
- yarn spinning
- description
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- sort or variety; "every description of book was there"
- a statement that represents something in words
- the act of describing something related words >
- account,
- anecdote,
- blood,
- brand,
- breed,
- cast,
- category,
- character,
- characterization,
- chronicle,
- clan,
- class,
- color,
- commentary,
- construction,
- definition,
- delineation,
- denomination,
- depiction,
- designation,
- diagnosis,
- differentiation,
- distinction,
- explanation,
- feather,
- form,
- genre,
- genus,
- grain,
- history,
- ilk,
- interpretation,
- kidney,
- kin,
- kind,
- label,
- line,
- lot,
- make,
- manner,
- mark,
- meaning,
- memoir,
- mold,
- narration,
- narrative,
- nature,
- number,
- persuasion,
- phylum,
- picture,
- portrait,
- portraiture,
- portrayal,
- presentment,
- race,
- reading,
- recital,
- record,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- report,
- representation,
- shape,
- sort,
- species,
- stamp,
- statement,
- story,
- strain,
- stripe,
- style,
- tale,
- the like of,
- the likes of,
- thumbnail sketch,
- tribe,
- type,
- variety,
- version,
- way of seeing,
- yarn
- epic
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- very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture"
- constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; "epic tradition" related words >
- English sonnet,
- Horatian ode,
- Italian sonnet,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- Sapphic ode,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- account,
- alba,
- anacreontic,
- anecdotage,
- anecdote,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- bucolic,
- canso,
- chanson,
- chronicle,
- clerihew,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- eclogue,
- elegy,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- idyll,
- jingle,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- monody,
- narration,
- narrative,
- narrative poem,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- palinode,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- poem,
- prothalamium,
- rhyme,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- saga,
- satire,
- sestina,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- story,
- tale,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- yarn
- yarn
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- tell or spin a yarn related words >
- account,
- anecdotage,
- anecdote,
- belly laugh,
- blague,
- blue story,
- braid,
- brail,
- cable,
- causerie,
- chat,
- chin,
- chronicle,
- cock-and-bull story,
- colloque,
- cord,
- dirty joke,
- dirty story,
- double entendre,
- epic,
- epos,
- ethnic joke,
- exaggeration,
- fable,
- fabrication,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fib,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- fun,
- funny story,
- gag,
- ghost story,
- good one,
- good story,
- half-truth,
- howler,
- jape,
- jest,
- jestbook,
- joke,
- laugh,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- ligament,
- ligation,
- ligature,
- line,
- little white lie,
- mendacity,
- narration,
- narrative,
- panic,
- pious fiction,
- play,
- point,
- prevarication,
- prose,
- rap,
- rib tickler,
- riot,
- rope,
- saga,
- scream,
- sick joke,
- sidesplitter,
- sight gag,
- slight stretching,
- sport,
- spun yarn,
- story,
- strand,
- string,
- tale,
- talk,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- tendon,
- thong,
- thread,
- trumped-up story,
- twine,
- twist,
- untruth,
- visit,
- visual joke,
- wheeze,
- white lie,
- whopper,
- wire,
- wow
- account,
- aggregate,
- all,
- amount,
- anecdotage,
- anecdote,
- back-fence gossip,
- backbiting,
- backstabbing,
- be-all and end-all,
- belittlement,
- blague,
- box score,
- calumny,
- canard,
- cast,
- chitchat,
- chronicle,
- cock-and-bull story,
- count,
- defamation,
- depreciation,
- difference,
- disparagement,
- entirety,
- enumerate,
- epic,
- epos,
- exaggeration,
- fabrication,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- falsification,
- falsity,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fib,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- ghost story,
- gossip,
- gossiping,
- gossipmongering,
- gossipry,
- groundless rumor,
- half-truth,
- history,
- idle talk,
- legal fiction,
- libel,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- mendacity,
- misrepresentation,
- myth,
- narration,
- narrative,
- newsmongering,
- number,
- numerate,
- piece of gossip,
- pious fiction,
- prevarication,
- product,
- quantity,
- recital,
- reckoning,
- record,
- report,
- rumor,
- saga,
- scandal,
- score,
- scuttlebutt,
- slander,
- slight stretching,
- story,
- sum,
- sum total,
- summation,
- talebearing,
- taletelling,
- talk,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- tally,
- taradiddle,
- tattle,
- tell,
- the bottom line,
- the story,
- the whole story,
- tittle-tattle,
- total,
- totality,
- tote,
- trumped-up story,
- untruth,
- white lie,
- whole,
- x number,
- yam,
- yarn
- memoir
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- an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic
- an account of the author's personal experiences related words >
- Clio,
- Muse of history,
- account,
- accounts,
- adventures,
- adversaria,
- aide-memoire,
- anecdote,
- annals,
- annotation,
- article,
- autobiography,
- biographical sketch,
- biography,
- case history,
- causerie,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- commitment to memory,
- confessions,
- curriculum vitae,
- descant,
- diary,
- discourse,
- discussion,
- disquisition,
- dissertation,
- docket,
- entry,
- essay,
- etude,
- examination,
- excursus,
- exercise of memory,
- experiences,
- exposition,
- feature,
- first approach,
- flashback,
- footnote,
- fortunes,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- hindsight,
- historiography,
- history,
- homily,
- introductory study,
- item,
- jotting,
- journal,
- learning by heart,
- legend,
- letters,
- life,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- looking back,
- lucubration,
- marginal note,
- marginalia,
- martyrology,
- memo,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorandum,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- memories,
- memorization,
- memorizing,
- memory,
- minutes,
- monograph,
- morceau,
- narrative,
- necrology,
- notation,
- note,
- obituary,
- outline,
- pandect,
- paper,
- paragraph,
- photobiography,
- piece,
- preliminary study,
- profile,
- prolegomenon,
- recall,
- recalling,
- recollecting,
- recollection,
- reconsideration,
- record,
- records,
- reflection,
- register,
- registry,
- remembering,
- remembrance,
- reminder,
- reminiscence,
- report,
- reportage,
- research paper,
- resume,
- retrospect,
- retrospection,
- review,
- rote,
- rote memory,
- scholia,
- scholium,
- screed,
- sketch,
- special article,
- story,
- study,
- survey,
- term paper,
- theme,
- theory of history,
- thesis,
- tract,
- tractate,
- treatise,
- treatment
- chronicle
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- record in chronological order; make a historical record related words >
- Clio,
- Muse of history,
- account,
- adventures,
- anecdotage,
- anecdote,
- annals,
- archive,
- autobiography,
- biograph,
- biographical sketch,
- biographize,
- biography,
- book,
- calendar,
- carve,
- case history,
- catalog,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- check in,
- check sheet,
- chronicles,
- chronologize,
- chronology,
- clock card,
- confessions,
- correspondence,
- curriculum vitae,
- cut,
- date slip,
- datebook,
- daybook,
- describe,
- description,
- diary,
- docket,
- document,
- documentation,
- engrave,
- enroll,
- enscroll,
- enter,
- epic,
- epos,
- experiences,
- file,
- fill out,
- fortunes,
- grave,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- historify,
- historiography,
- history,
- impanel,
- incise,
- index,
- inscribe,
- insert,
- intercalate,
- inventory,
- jot down,
- journal,
- legend,
- letters,
- life,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- list,
- log,
- make a memorandum,
- make a note,
- make an entry,
- make out,
- mark down,
- martyrology,
- matriculate,
- memoir,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- minute,
- narrate,
- narration,
- narrative,
- necrology,
- note,
- note down,
- obituary,
- photobiography,
- pipe roll,
- place upon record,
- poll,
- post,
- post up,
- profile,
- put down,
- put in writing,
- put on paper,
- put on tape,
- recital,
- record,
- recording,
- recount,
- recountal,
- reduce to writing,
- register,
- registry,
- relate,
- relic,
- remains,
- report,
- resume,
- retail,
- roll,
- rolls,
- roster,
- rota,
- saga,
- scroll,
- set down,
- story,
- table,
- tabulate,
- take down,
- tale,
- tape,
- tape-record,
- tell,
- theory of history,
- time book,
- time chart,
- time scale,
- time schedule,
- time sheet,
- time study,
- timecard,
- timetable,
- token,
- trace,
- version,
- vestige,
- videotape,
- write,
- write down,
- write in,
- write out,
- write up,
- yarn
- fiction
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- a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact related words >
- Marchen,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- adventure story,
- allegory,
- anecdote,
- apologue,
- apparition,
- article,
- autograph,
- bedtime story,
- blague,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- canard,
- chimera,
- cock-and-bull story,
- composition,
- computer printout,
- concoction,
- copy,
- delirium,
- detective story,
- document,
- draft,
- edited version,
- eidolon,
- engrossment,
- essay,
- exaggeration,
- extravaganza,
- fable,
- fabliau,
- fabrication,
- fair copy,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fib,
- figment,
- final draft,
- finished version,
- first draft,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- flimsy,
- folk story,
- folktale,
- forgery,
- gest,
- ghost story,
- half-truth,
- hallucination,
- holograph,
- horse opera,
- idle fancy,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- legal fiction,
- legend,
- letter,
- lie,
- literae scriptae,
- literary artefact,
- literary production,
- literature,
- little white lie,
- love story,
- lucubration,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- manuscript,
- matter,
- mendacity,
- misrepresentation,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- myth,
- mythology,
- mythos,
- narrative,
- nonfiction,
- nursery tale,
- opus,
- original,
- paper,
- parable,
- parchment,
- penscript,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- piece,
- piece of writing,
- pious fiction,
- play,
- poem,
- prevarication,
- printed matter,
- printout,
- production,
- reading matter,
- recension,
- romance,
- science fiction,
- screed,
- scrip,
- script,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- second draft,
- shocker,
- sick fancy,
- slight stretching,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- story,
- suspense story,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- the written word,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thriller,
- transcript,
- transcription,
- trip,
- trumped-up story,
- typescript,
- untruth,
- vapor,
- version,
- vision,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- white lie,
- whodunit,
- wildest dreams,
- work,
- work of fiction,
- writing,
- yarn
- joke
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- a triviality not to be taken seriously; "I regarded his campaign for mayor as a joke"
- a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"
- act in a funny or teasing way
- tell a joke; speak humorously; "He often jokes even when he appears serious" related words >
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- absurdity,
- anecdote,
- antic,
- badinage,
- bagatelle,
- banter,
- bauble,
- be merry with,
- bean,
- belly laugh,
- bibelot,
- bijouterie,
- bit,
- blue story,
- bon mot,
- brass farthing,
- buffoon,
- burlesque,
- butt,
- button,
- byword,
- byword of reproach,
- caper,
- caricature,
- cent,
- chaff,
- crack,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- curio,
- derision,
- dido,
- dirty joke,
- dirty story,
- double entendre,
- drollery,
- dupe,
- ethnic joke,
- exchange,
- facetiousness,
- fair game,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- fig,
- figure of fun,
- fleabite,
- fleer at,
- folderol,
- fool,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- frolic,
- fun,
- funny story,
- gag,
- game,
- gaud,
- gazingstock,
- gewgaw,
- gibe at,
- gimcrack,
- give-and-take,
- goat,
- good one,
- good story,
- good-natured banter,
- hair,
- halfpenny,
- harmless teasing,
- haze,
- hill of beans,
- howler,
- humor,
- humorousness,
- jape,
- jest,
- jestbook,
- jestingstock,
- jive,
- jocoseness,
- jocularity,
- jolly,
- josh,
- kickshaw,
- kid,
- kid around,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- laugh,
- laughingstock,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- minikin,
- mock,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- monkey,
- monkeyshine,
- needle,
- panic,
- parody,
- peppercorn,
- persiflage,
- picayune,
- pilgarlic,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- play,
- play on words,
- pleasantry,
- point,
- poke fun at,
- prank,
- pun,
- put on,
- quip,
- quiz,
- rag,
- raillery,
- rally,
- rallying,
- rap,
- razz,
- red cent,
- repartee,
- rib,
- rib tickler,
- ride,
- ridicule,
- riot,
- roast,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- sally,
- sarcasm,
- scintillate,
- scoff at,
- scream,
- shit,
- sick joke,
- sidesplitter,
- sight gag,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- sparkle,
- sport,
- stock,
- story,
- straw,
- target,
- taunt,
- tease,
- toy,
- travesty,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- twit,
- two cents,
- twopence,
- utter a mot,
- victim,
- visual joke,
- waggery,
- wheeze,
- whim-wham,
- wisecrack,
- wit,
- witticism,
- wittiness,
- wordplay,
- wow,
- yak,
- yarn
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