Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who tells stories, true or fictitious, whether orally or in writing.
- noun One given to relating anecdotes: as, a good story-teller at a dinner-table.
- noun One who tells falsehoods; a fibber.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales.
- noun An historian; -- in contempt.
- noun A euphemism or child's word for “a liar.”
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who tells a story
- noun someone who tells lies
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Examples
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But he was such a great story-teller and spokesman for the ice and the life cycle it supports that I thought an interview format would better serve Huffington Post readers -- interspersed with photos, of course.
Steven Crandell: "We're Destroying the Most Amazing Thing in Our Lives" -- Interview With Polar Photographer Paul Nicklen Steven Crandell 2011
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In the East the professional story-teller goes from village to village with a small carpet; and I wish sincerely that any one had the moral courage to spread that carpet and sit on it in Ludgate Circus.
Quoth G.K.C. superversive 2009
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The anonymous living tell their story every day, with the help of professional or amateur writers, but the greatest story-teller of all is time and change, or death.
william saroyan | part II « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
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But he was such a great story-teller and spokesman for the ice and the life cycle it supports that I thought an interview format would better serve Huffington Post readers -- interspersed with photos, of course.
Steven Crandell: "We're Destroying the Most Amazing Thing in Our Lives" -- Interview With Polar Photographer Paul Nicklen Steven Crandell 2011
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But he was such a great story-teller and spokesman for the ice and the life cycle it supports that I thought an interview format would better serve Huffington Post readers -- interspersed with photos, of course.
Steven Crandell: "We're Destroying the Most Amazing Thing in Our Lives" -- Interview With Polar Photographer Paul Nicklen Steven Crandell 2011
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The anonymous living tell their story every day, with the help of professional or amateur writers, but the greatest story-teller of all is time and change, or death.
January « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
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Tender, grand, a story-teller like few others, Bearden's work from the 1960's until his passing in 1988 has emerged as a touchstone, if a neglected one, of 20th century American art.
Bobby Elliott: New York's Centennial Celebration of Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988) Bobby Elliott 2011
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Tender, grand, a story-teller like few others, Bearden's work from the 1960's until his passing in 1988 has emerged as a touchstone, if a neglected one, of 20th century American art.
Bobby Elliott: New York's Centennial Celebration of Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988) Bobby Elliott 2011
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Tender, grand, a story-teller like few others, Bearden's work from the 1960's until his passing in 1988 has emerged as a touchstone, if a neglected one, of 20th century American art.
Bobby Elliott: New York's Centennial Celebration of Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988) Bobby Elliott 2011
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But he was such a great story-teller and spokesman for the ice and the life cycle it supports that I thought an interview format would better serve Huffington Post readers -- interspersed with photos, of course.
Steven Crandell: "We're Destroying the Most Amazing Thing in Our Lives" -- Interview With Polar Photographer Paul Nicklen Steven Crandell 2011
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