A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place.
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.
The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.