Meaning

3 senses
  1. A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.

    Near-synonym: storywriter

    Erzähler, Erzählerin, Geschichtenerzähler

    расска́зчикrasskázčik, расска́зчицаrasskázčica, ска́зочникskázočnik

    оповіда́чopovidáč, опові́дачopovídač, оповіда́чкаopovidáčka

  2. A liar; a fibber.

    вы́думщикvýdumščik, вы́думщицаvýdumščica, ска́зочникskázočnik

  3. A game master, particularly in games focused on collaborative storytelling.

More definitions
  • someone who tells lies
  • someone who tells a story

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Tom is a very good storyteller.

    ruТом очень хороший рассказчик. — marafon

  2. Tom and Mary are both storytellers.

  3. He is a storyteller and a poet.

  4. I know Tom isn't a very good storyteller.

  5. I know Tom is a very good storyteller.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
person who relates stories to an audience:
Русский
By meaning 2
person who relates stories to an audience:
liar:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person who relates stories to an audience:

Origin

From story + teller.

From story + teller.

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Forms

plural: storytellers

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary 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.

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