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
The entire cast of narrators is eager to tell us their versions of how they met and knew the infamous Lou Villars.
French Lesbian Auto-Racer Turns Nazi Spy: Francine Prose’s Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 | Jessica Ferri | April 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn alternating chapters, the two narrators of the novel describe their lives with Isaac, from two different periods in time.
If there is a flaw to be found here it is only one of narrowness; all of these narrators are American men and most are Marines.
Leskov's genius lies in the modesty of his narrators, their helplessness before the art of narrative.
The Forgotten Russian: The Genius of Nikolai Leskov | Benjamin Lytal | April 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was an ocean of stories, we were all its narrators, and everybody talked at once.
Their credulity increases the narrators shamelessness; his shamelessness convinces their credulity.
Criminal Psychology | Hans GrossThe epithets vary with the different narrators of the lines.
Summer Days in Shakespeare Land | Charles G. HarperThe three stories were taken down from the lips of the narrators.
Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales | George Bird GrinnellThe greatest mistake made by narrators of the marvellous is attempting to account for the unaccountable.
Plants grew up there in the form of a cross, say the veracious narrators.
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.
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