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RECOUNTING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does recounting mean?

• RECOUNTING (noun)
The noun RECOUNTING has 1 sense:

1. an act of narration

Familiarity information: RECOUNTING used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RECOUNTING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An act of narration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

recounting; telling; relation

Context examples:

he was the hero according to his own relation / his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable

Hypernyms ("recounting" is a kind of...):

narration; recital; yarn (the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events)

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