Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who tells stories; a storyteller.
- noun A talebearer; a tattletale.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who tells tales or stories; specifically, one who retails gossip or slander.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
tells tales
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who gossips indiscreetly
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Examples
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In some ways they also say that a taleteller doesn't have to be perfect if the tale is good enough.
Even in a little thing gillpolack 2006
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It takes a long time to tell badly on paper what is told in a minute so well by the 'taleteller,' as Sir Walter calls himself.
Maria Edgeworth 1905
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Frémont, of Kit Carson, of Harney, and Bridger; the fearless strivers toward an ever-receding West, fascinating for its untried dangers as for its fabled wealth, -- the sturdy, grave men who fought and toiled and hoped, and realised in varying measure, but who led in sober truth a life such as the colours of no taleteller shall ever be high enough to reproduce.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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"You have sat at the feet of an excellent taleteller, sir, or else you have a prodigious imagination of your own."
The Brown Mask Percy James Brebner 1893
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But the ecclesiastical taleteller does not do poetical justice upon any offenders, and he vilely slanders the great Cæsar, Trajan.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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We reade in ye taleteller Esope, a doue was saued by the helpe of an ant.
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One could not tell the most extravagant fairy-tale so as to rouse and sustain the attention of the most infantine listener, if the tale were told as if the taleteller did not believe in it.
A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Thus the historian imbibed naturally the spirit of the taleteller.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"I think I remember to have heard their names in connection with your profession of taleteller."
The Pilgrims of the Rhine Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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One could not tell the most extravagant fairy-tale so as to rouse and sustain the attention of the most infantine listener, if the tale were told as if the taleteller did not believe in it.
A Strange Story — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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