Retelling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Retelling is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of retell.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of retell.
More Meanings
- A new, changed, or adapted version of a story.
Example Sentences
The new film is a needless retelling of what was already a cinematic classic.
Huntsman feints at being the Snow White retelling no one has ever seen before, but ultimately becomes the “been there, done that” of fairy-tale filmmaking.
Like those of other saints, Mira Bai's life story lies within a number of retellings, each more detailed than the last, so that her biography now includes burnishings that probably would not pass any historian's test.
Word Forms
- retellings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ingeminate, reiterate, repeat, restate, recite, fictionalize.
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