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Erzählung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • history noun The study of past events, or the events themselves considered together.
  • narration noun The act of telling or recounting a story or sequence of events.
  • narrative noun A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
  • story noun An account, true or invented, of events told for information or entertainment.
  • tale noun A story, especially one that is told aloud and may be fictional or exaggerated.

Senses

Erzählung is used for these senses in English:

  • history (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.
  • narrative The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
  • narrative That which is narrated.
  • short story (literature) A work of fiction that is shorter than a novella.
  • story An account of real or fictional events.
  • tale A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

history — full definition

  1. noun The study of past events, or the events themselves considered together.
  2. noun A record of an entity's past actions or states, such as a browsing history or medical history.
  3. noun Used to say something is no longer relevant or has ended, especially in the phrase "be history."

narration — full definition

  1. noun The act of telling or recounting a story or sequence of events.
  2. noun A spoken or written account of events; a story.

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