storyteller
Americannoun
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a person who tells or writes stories or anecdotes.
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a person who tells more or less trivial falsehoods; fibber.
noun
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a person who tells stories
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informal a liar
Other Word Forms
- storytelling noun
Etymology
Origin of storyteller
1700–10; story 1 + teller ( def. )
Example Sentences
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She’s a cracking storyteller, don’t get me wrong, but sentence to sentence there’s not a lot going on, and there are hiccups in her grammar and syntax.
Nevertheless, as a storyteller Mr. Man is first-rate.
“Politics and movies share this in common: They both need good stories ... and he was such a gifted storyteller.”
From Los Angeles Times
"My job is to be a storyteller," he says.
From BBC
Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.
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