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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He couldn’t read, write, or speak English, but books were the gift he best loved to give, and that was because he was a great storyteller.
From Literature
He teaches at Harvard and is a well-known public figure — a history communicator, scholar and storyteller and a minor TV star the world also knows as “Skip.”
From Los Angeles Times
“That’s the best situation I can have as a filmmaker, storyteller, storyteller, that you actually care.”
From Salon
Founded by storyteller Anant Pai after he noticed children on a quiz show knew more about Greek gods than their own mythological heroes, ACK quickly became a cultural touchstone.
From Barron's
What emerges from “Tradecraft” is not just the portrait of a master storyteller, but of a man driven by a relentless search for narrative truth in all its guises.
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