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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

• STORYTELLER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Someone who tells a story

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

narrator; storyteller; teller

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

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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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