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narrator

narrator

202 3.5
A person who tells a story in a book, play, or film
  • noun
  • /ˈnɛrəˌtɔr/
translation icon : narrador
  • Again, Hamsun speaks through a first-person narrator, bringing the reader directly into the complexities of the mind.
  • omniscient narrator
  • first-person narrator
  • narrator tells stories

What is that unreliable narrator of what would be?

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Examples

  • And that narrator who is telling history can make mistakes.

  • Hermes, the narrator, says that Orpheus was a poor boy, but he had a gift to give.

  • This one is about the narrator who is a young girl.

  • And so you lose the ability to trust yourself as the narrator of your own story.

  • I really enjoyed learning who the mystery narrator was.

  • And the narrator says the algorithm said I was dead.

  • The second is the text of the translation that the narrator pays for.

  • So what you see here is a narrator who has learned to do that parsing.

  • In this first portrait of Criseida, the narrator describes her in glowing terms.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • In the film, the narrator provides background details that enhance the story.

Synonyms

storyteller
vsnarrator
64 2.3

A person who tells stories aloud to entertain people

is used within books, plays, or films rather than public performance
teller
vsnarrator
50 3.8

A person who shares stories aloud to entertain others

refers mainly to a voice in written or filmed narrative contexts
chronicler
vsnarrator
11 7.2

A person who writes down events in the order they happen

tells a structured story for artistic or fictional presentation rather than recording facts
conteur
vsnarrator
9.9

A person who tells stories in an interesting way

focuses on speaking for narrative works rather than performance flair

How Involved

protagonist
69 4.4
narrator
202 3.5
witness
889 2.5
observer
305 2.8

Surface Forms

narrator singular
narrators plural

Morphology

narrator = narrate (transparent) = narrate + or

Formed by the verb 'narrate' plus the agentive suffix '-or', meaning 'a person who narrates', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word narrator comes from the Latin verb narrare, which means 'to tell'. Think of the words narrate and narrative, because a narrator is simply the person who 'tells' the story.