storyteller
A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audienceA person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.
Meaning
3 sensesA person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.
Near-synonym: storywriter
Erzähler, Erzählerin, Geschichtenerzähler
расска́зчикrasskázčik, расска́зчицаrasskázčica, ска́зочникskázočnik
оповіда́чopovidáč, опові́дачopovídač, оповіда́чкаopovidáčka
A liar; a fibber.
вы́думщикvýdumščik, вы́думщицаvýdumščica, ска́зочникskázočnik
A game master, particularly in games focused on collaborative storytelling.
- someone who tells lies
- someone who tells a story
Examples
22 sentencesTom is a very good storyteller.
ruТом очень хороший рассказчик. — marafon
Tom and Mary are both storytellers.
He is a storyteller and a poet.
I know Tom isn't a very good storyteller.
I know Tom is a very good storyteller.
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
By meaning 1
Origin
From story + teller.From story + teller.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: storytellersSynonyms
4 synonyms- someone who tells lies:fabricator
- someone who tells a story:narratorteller
Word family
2 related wordsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.