narrator
Other forms: narrators
A narrator is the storyteller in a book or movie. One of the most famous literary narrators is Herman Melville's Ishmael, who tells the story of Moby Dick.
The narrator is the person who tells the story — in other words, she narrates it. In a fictional work, the narrator is a character who relays the story from her own perspective, which is different from the writer. If you don't trust the narrator's version of the story, you may have encountered an "unreliable narrator." The Latin root is narrare, "to tell or relate," or literally "to make acquainted with," from gnarus, "knowing."
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someone who tells a storysynonyms: storyteller, tellertypes:fabulista person who tells or invents fablesgriota storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or villagespeakerthe narrative voice of a poem (as distinct from the poet)type of:speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizersomeone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
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