1. n. The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
2. n. 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.
3. n. (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.
