Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who tells or writes stories.
- n. One who relates anecdotes.
- n. Informal One who tells lies.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.
- n. role-playing games A game master, particularly in games focused on collaborative storytelling.
Etymologies
- From story + teller. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A sad story means, this storyteller is alive (p. 9).”
“Acting, writing and game design share this trait in common -- the stories they each tell become more sincere when the storyteller is a conduit, not a puppet master.”
“I learned on the reservation that the ancient, sacred charge of the storyteller is to beguile the time.”
“So I agree, staying true to your own inner storyteller is the best!”
“What might surprise some people, beyond Obama's ability as a writer and storyteller, is that each of his characters becomes a distinct voice that he brings alive, not just in his writing but even more so in this audiobook.”
“The storyteller is like a camera; Sam Spade never "thinks" anything.”
“The stories pose a threat if their parents and teachers are not reading the books too, and participating in the experience, talking about what the storyteller is doing.”
“I'm trying to write records the way Thomas Pynchon writes novels or (Federico) Fellini made movies: Tell a serious story using these absurdist tools like the unreliable narrator, where you know the storyteller is not telling the truth.”
“A century later, Edgar Allan Poe perfected the unreliable narrator, and so we must also question at every moment whether our storyteller is telling lies.”
“The character of this storyteller is most perceivable in the Prologue and Book One, but gradually blends into the evolving tapestry of the novel, and is always there.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘storyteller’.
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artists
different kind of artists.. any kind (general or specific types).
algorist, painter, sculptor, singer, musician, dancer, writer, puppeteer, actor, poet, cartoonist, photographer and 19 more...
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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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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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TN5 Lesson 53
story, once upon a time, coal, white, wing, shine, shone, all over, miss, beginning, storyteller, such and 10 more...
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To Marji
compote, baker, pie, traveller, nurse, mother hen, executive, berkeley, seattle, friend, denver, punctilious and 55 more...
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Constellations Reel
A list of participants in the poem "Constellations reel" by lcmt
exile, beggar, dancer, songbird, passer-by, sightseer, pilgrim, storyteller, minstrel, mariner, wayfarer, stranger and 2 more...
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Triple Doubles and Other Multiples
inopportune, poussette, clapperless, shoelessness, didgeridoo, sheesh, storyteller, frontierless, slaughterhouse, enfeoff, plantagenet, blunderbuss and 32 more...
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