noun
relation
The act of telling what happened.
Her relation of the incident takes several minutes.
Etymology
The Latin noun includes the act of reporting. This sense of relation names the telling of events rather than the connection between things.
More examples
- The witness gave a careful relation of what happened.
- His relation of the voyage filled a small notebook.
- The old account offered a vivid relation of the disaster.
Forms
relation · relations
relate verb — tell what happened