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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A story-teller; a person given to or skilled in relating anecdotes, recounting adventures, or the like.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit.
  2. v. To make witty remarks or stories.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A relater; a storyteller.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person skilled in telling anecdotes

Etymologies

  1. From French, agentive of raconter ("to relate, to recount") (Wiktionary)
  2. 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)

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  • bookhling Tour for raccoon.... Poaching? Aug 24, 2008

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    raconteur:stories
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