Definition of "retelling" []

• A new account or an adaptation of a story: a retelling of a Roman myth. (noun)

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• "I think the children and others such and I will engage in retelling the story of Frodo and Sam."
• "For me, the quintessential cinematic take on Treasure Island will always be, naturally, Muppet Treasure Island; any other retelling is extraneous."
• "The ancient Roman architectural writer Vitruvius could be, at times, a bit of a gloomy Gus -- or Augustus -- whose back-to-basics canons don't always match up with the occasional, agreeable messiness of later Roman classicism, but in retelling this story he did have a point."