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NARRATOR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who tells a story

Synonyms:

narrator; storyteller; teller

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("narrator" is a kind of...):

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "narrator"):

anecdotist; raconteur (a person skilled in telling anecdotes)

fabulist (a person who tells or invents fables)

griot (a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village)

Derivation:

narrate (narrate or give a detailed account of)

Credits