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
- From French, agentive of raconter ("to relate, to recount") (Wiktionary)
- French, from raconter, to relate, from Old French : re-, re- + aconter, to count up, reckon; see account. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
throng, morass, parley, facile, kismet, strife, jetsam, carrion, annex, harbinger, vestige, surreptitious and 575 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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phrontistery-r
from phrontistery.info
rya, rutilant, ruthful, rutherford, ruth, rusticity, rusticate, Russophobia, Russophile, russet, russel, rushlight and 514 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 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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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1904 more...
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magoosh1
aberration, aboveboard, abysmal, ace, affable, aghast, alacrity, ambiguous, ambivalent, ameliorate, amenable, amiable and 222 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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The New Yorker
prejudice, ignominious, quintessence, disparity, vanguard, repudiated, eclectic, dredge, taxonomy, pugnacious, surreptitiously, pudgy and 113 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for raconteur.
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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