récit — meaning in English

English meaning

• account noun A written or spoken description of events; a report.
• narrative noun A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

Senses

récit is used for these senses in English:

• account (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]
• account A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
• narrative The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.

account — full definition

1. noun A written or spoken description of events; a report.
2. noun A record of money held at a bank, or of a person's access to a service.
3. verb To give a satisfactory explanation for something (usually with "for").

narrative — full definition

1. noun A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
2. adj Relating to storytelling, or having the form of a story.

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