narrator
or nar·rat·er
a person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc.
a person who adds spoken commentary to a film, television program, slide show, etc.
Origin of narrator
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How to use narrator in a sentence
She’s an empathetic narrator and offers advice throughout about how to ease into things.
A New Podcast Explores Sex in the Great Outdoors | Heather Hansman | February 12, 2021 | Outside OnlineIn taking on this narrative task, Prokopios reflects that what he has to share is so outrageous that he fears he “shall earn the reputation of being a narrator of myths and shall be ranked among the tragic poets.”
What the QAnon of the 6th Century Teaches Us About Conspiracies | Roland Betancourt | February 3, 2021 | TimeAfter the dissolution of their relationship does not go as she planned, the narrator finds herself no longer tied to New York and moves to Berlin.
Its narrator, Earl Turner, gloats that “not one of them is beyond our reach.”
It’s time to take domestic nuclear terrorism seriously | Jayita Sarkar | January 27, 2021 | Washington PostThe compelling narrator is one of those captive children, Lex, who, at 15, escaped and freed her siblings and over the ensuing years found poise and sanity in widely varying degrees.
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“You were going to work your way into my marriage and you were going to call its new three-way shape holy” the narrator recounts.
Could you talk a minute about the notion of being an unreliable narrator?
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination | Mindy Farabee | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn “Sleigh Ride,” the narrator is painting a scene so perfect that it could be featured on an iconic Currier and Ives print.
The Most Confusing Christmas Music Lyrics Explained (VIDEO) | Kevin Fallon | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe narrator is suggesting that they build a snowman that looks like a minister.
The Most Confusing Christmas Music Lyrics Explained (VIDEO) | Kevin Fallon | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTKoenig has not been a sterile, objective narrator; she has openly voiced her biases, concerns, and gut feelings all along.
Adnan Killed Her! No, Jay Did It! Serial’s Uncertain, True-to-Reality End | Emily Shire | December 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWith such a faculty Balzac could not be, like Edgar Poe, merely a narrator of nightmares.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheFor many years they did not furnish any exciting or even interesting matter to this narrator.
I felt some curiosity as to the interrupted narrative, even in despite of the evident frivolity of the narrator.
The narrator dwelt on the flirtation lovingly, and at great length, but here we are obliged to curtail it.
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. WigramThese questions have very much the appearance of having been invented by the narrator for the sake of the answers.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick Niecks
British Dictionary definitions for narrator
/ (nəˈreɪtə) /
a person who tells a story or gives an account of something
a person who speaks in accompaniment of a film, television programme, etc
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for narrator
A person who tells a story; in literature, the voice that an author takes on to tell a story. This voice can have a personality quite different from the author's. For example, in his story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe makes his narrator a raving lunatic.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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