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 was both an artist and a storyteller who sought to “reassert the history and the culture,” he told The Times in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 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
As a muralist, Mel Depaz is a storyteller.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
“That’s the best situation I can have as a filmmaker, storyteller, storyteller, that you actually care.”
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026
You supposed to be a master storyteller, right?
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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