taleteller
Americannoun
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a telltale; talebearer.
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a person who tells falsehoods.
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a person who tells tales or stories; narrator.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of taleteller
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at tale, teller
Example Sentences
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In the first, we meet our taleteller, Christine Pizan, a complicit yet remorseful resident on CIEL.
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2017
And essential to a taleteller who leaves us with one hopeful question: "Do you see?"
From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2010
"Storytellers," said that old Celtic taleteller William Butler Yeats, "make us remember what mankind would have been like, had not fear, and the failing will and the laws of nature tripped up its heels."
From Time Magazine Archive
The works of the Scandinavian taleteller resemble rows of icicles, gelid, brittle and pure.
From Time Magazine Archive
One wine-sodden taleteller even claimed that Rhaegar Targaryen had returned from the dead and was marshaling a vast host of ancient heroes on Dragonstone to reclaim his father's throne.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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