Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A story-teller; a person given to or skilled in relating anecdotes, recounting adventures, or the like.
Wiktionary
- n. A storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit.
- v. To make witty remarks or stories.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A relater; a storyteller.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person skilled in telling anecdotes
Etymologies
- French, from raconter, to relate, from Old French : re-, re- + aconter, to count up, reckon; see account.
Examples
“He had a terrific sense of humor and was a great "raconteur"--look it up!”
“York was known as a raconteur who loved telling jokes, including to the stone-faced negotiators for the Soviet Union during the long sessions in Geneva.”
“Utah Phillips, a former NPR host who was blacklisted in the state of Utah after an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate in 1968 on the Peace and Freedom party ticket can be described as a raconteur extraordinaire, a radical historian well-versed in the sorrowful details of the bloodiest social justice struggles of the last century, a hobo, and one hell of a musician whose songs can break your heart and bring your blood to a boil.”
“But my father was a great "raconteur" and he just loved to have somebody come in the house and, after we'd moved to the new house as we called it where the Junior League is now, he just loved to lay back in his chair.”
“But a purist who objects so forcibly to archaism and archaicism should avoid such terms as "whilom Persian Secretary" (p. 170); as anthophobia, which he is compelled to explain by "dread of selecting only what is best" (p. 175), as anthophobist (p. 176); as "fatuous ejaculations" (p. 183), as a "raconteur”
“An admirable talker, 'raconteur', and mimic, with a wit's relish for wit, the charm of his good temper was irresistible.”
“Describing her role as a "raconteur," she said, "Verlaine's poems are sheer romance.”
“• Brian Simpson Obituary, 2 February was indeed a gifted raconteur.”
“Durrell, as well as loving animals to distraction, also had the light-hearted touch of the raconteur.”
“Listening to the archive material in the documentary, there's an immediate sense of being in the company of a natural raconteur.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘raconteur’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 more...
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soliloquy, eros, agape, solipsism, palimpsest, fabulist, lore, raconteur, harbinger, anamnesis, sattvic, comprecation and 20 more...
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Frenchies
courgette, soufflé, siège, folie à deux, laissez faire, élan, dilettante, boulangerie, au contraire, raconteur, chanson, epaulette
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open list: the art of talking
Words that describe people who are identified by a specific variety of speech. This list was inspired by the discussion at anecdotalist.
anecdotalist, conversationalist, fabulist, mythomaniac, speechifier, gaffeur, bullshit artist, preacher, witticist, raconteur, storyteller, liar and 29 more...
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Slam Fodder
Those words that will inevitable end up in a Slam Poem
feel free to challenge me!:)bumptious, gamekeeper, slamily, burbuliatorius, cryptomnesia, paradox, pulchritudinous, mimetic, anhedonia, skelf, rampike, furlough and 84 more...
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Steve's words
proboscis, classic, Cosa Nostra, artisan, insatiably, sepulcher, raconteur, taciturn
bookhling Tour for raccoon.... Poaching? Aug 24, 2008
oroboros Raccoon's on tour? Apr 22, 2008
sera Making up analogies...
raconteur:stories
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