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RACONTEUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does raconteur mean?
• RACONTEUR (noun)
The noun RACONTEUR has 1 sense:
1. a person skilled in telling anecdotes
Familiarity information: RACONTEUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person skilled in telling anecdotes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
anecdotist; raconteur
Hypernyms ("raconteur" is a kind of...):
narrator; storyteller; teller (someone who tells a story)
Instance hyponyms:
Baron Munchausen; Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen; Munchausen; Munchhausen (German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797))
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