narratives
- 1Plural of narrative.
Historians often weigh competing narratives before reconstructing what happened.
The documentary set two opposing narratives side by side and let viewers decide.
Note
It is a plain -s plural and always a noun: the adjective narrative, as in a narrative poem, never takes the ending. Because narrative works as both a countable and an uncountable noun, the plural picks out separate tellings. With the point-of-view meaning it often signals rivalry, as in competing narratives or opposing narratives, where the stress falls on how events are framed rather than on how many stories there are.
narratives is a form of narrative
narrative, noun: The substance of what is told: the content of a story or account. Full entry
- Forms
- narrativenarratives plural
- Spelling
- narrative → narratives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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