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STORYTELLER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does storyteller mean?
• STORYTELLER (noun)
The noun STORYTELLER has 2 senses:
1. someone who tells a story
2. someone who tells lies
Familiarity information: STORYTELLER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who tells a story
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("storyteller" 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 "storyteller"):
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who tells lies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
fabricator; fibber; storyteller
Hypernyms ("storyteller" is a kind of...):
liar; prevaricator (a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly)
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