# metanarrative

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A narrative which concerns narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge and offers legitimation of such through the anticipated completion of some master idea; a grand story that is self-legitimizing.

## Etymology
From meta- (“transcending; of a level above”) + narrative (“recitation of a story”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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