NARRATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does narrator mean? 

• NARRATOR (noun)
  The noun NARRATOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who tells a story

  Familiarity information: NARRATOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NARRATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who tells a story

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

narrator; storyteller; teller

Hypernyms ("narrator" is a kind of...):

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "narrator"):

anecdotist; raconteur (a person skilled in telling anecdotes)

fabulist (a person who tells or invents fables)

griot (a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village)

Derivation:

narrate (narrate or give a detailed account of)

 Context examples 

You will find me a very awkward narrator, Miss Dashwood; I hardly know where to begin.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her aunt was no very methodical narrator, but with the help of some letters to and from Sir Thomas, and what she already knew herself, and could reasonably combine, she was soon able to understand quite as much as she wished of the circumstances attending the story.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Half-an-hour ago, he pursued, I spoke of my impatience to hear the sequel of a tale: on reflection, I find the matter will be better managed by my assuming the narrator's part, and converting you into a listener.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)