расска́з — meaning in English

English meaning

• account noun A written or spoken description of events; a report.
• 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.
• recount verb To tell a story or describe events in detail.
• relation noun The way in which two or more things are connected or associated with each other.
• 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.
• talk verb To communicate using spoken words.

Senses

расска́з 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]
• narration The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
• narration 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.
• narrative The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
• narrative That which is narrated.
• recount Narration, account, description, rendering
• relation (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
• short story (literature) A work of fiction that is shorter than a novella.

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").

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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