Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who relates, recites, or narrates; a historian. Also
relator .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who relates or narrates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
relates ornarrates .
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Examples
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Not he! and because, forsooth, in those strange and distant lands strange circumstances have taken place, it is insinuated that the relater is a liar: nay, that the very places themselves have no existence but in my imagination.
Burlesques 2006
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Not he! and because, forsooth, in those strange and distant lands strange circumstances have taken place, it is insinuated that the relater is a liar: nay, that the very places themselves have no existence but in my imagination.
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Not he! and because, forsooth, in those strange and distant lands strange circumstances have taken place, it is insinuated that the relater is a liar: nay, that the very places themselves have no existence but in my imagination.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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It seems that people can relater more easily with people's struggles than they can their successes.
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Meanwhile Mrs Delvile, with a countenance of the utmost indignation, exclaimed, “Lady Honoria, if you think a tale of scandal such as this reflects no disgrace upon its relater, you must pardon me for entreating you to find an auditor more of the same opinion than myself.”
Cecilia 2008
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In a conspiratorial tone, the relater of this tale leaned in towards the center of the table and whispered, "So I asked him ..."
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2008
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In the morning, some fishermen saw him floating in his sheep-skin coat, and got him into their boat — the sole relater of the dismal tale.
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One man still remains wiser than another, a more accurate observer and relater of facts, a truer measure of the proportions of knowledge.
Theaetetus 2007
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He was smoking a cigar, with his eyes fixed on the ceiling, and had that confident oracular air which marked him as the leading politician, general authority, and universal anecdote – relater, of the place.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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It is a trouble to me to be the relater of the bad news; but so it is — The lady is gone off!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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