retelling
Verb
  1. present participle of retell#English|retell
Noun

retelling (plural retellings)

  1. A new, changed, or adapted version of a story.
    The new film is a needless retelling of what was already a cinematic classic.
    • 2001, Kenneth L. Woodward, The Book of Miracles
      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.



This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Offline English dictionary