Definitions for retelling

retelling re·tell·ing

Spelling: [ree-tel-ing]
IPA: /riˈtɛl ɪŋ/

Retelling is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 278 anagrams from letters in retelling (eegillnrt).

Definitions for retelling

noun

  1. a new, and often updated or retranslated, version of a story.

verb (used with object)

  1. to tell (a story, tale, etc.) over again or in a new way:

Origin of retelling

First recorded in 1635-45; re- + tell1 + -ing1

Examples for retelling

Last year Fox gifted the world with the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” retelling we never knew we needed.

Ramin Setoodeh takes an 8-year-old girl to see the retelling of Snow White to investigate.

The truths in themselves were enough to bear telling and retelling.

Mrs. Lambert began in the tone of one retelling an old story.

Sheridan became red in the face and choked up while retelling that part of the incident, but composed herself quickly.

The story of the establishment is told in "Les Misrables," in detail that allows no retelling.

The materials for the retelling of this story are very slight.

“The sensation was one of hardening of the organs,” he chuckled in the retelling.

In the retelling of it, I have left out most of the history.

But perhaps most damaging of all was the retelling of an act of humiliation on a female student.

Word Value for retelling
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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