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
Etymology
Origin of storyteller
1700–10; story 1 + teller ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Mr. Awoke’s material is rich and his writing is stately, but as a storyteller he seems to be winging it.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Also, the winning storyteller will receive $400 upon publication of their story.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who died in 2025, was a prolific storyteller.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
The photography is occasionally dazzling—a standout sequence is a series of time-lapse images providing views of the movements of the stars over Africa—but Mr. Herzog is primarily a storyteller, albeit a digressive one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
Zhenya Rudneva, astronomy student and poet and storyteller, was awarded the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union in December 1944.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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