English
Etymology
From story + teller.
Pronunciation
Noun
storyteller (plural storytellers)
- A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.
- 1952, E. B. White, Charlotte's Web
- "Charlotte is the best storyteller I ever heard," said Fern, poking her dish towel into a cereal bowl.
- (roleplaying games) A game master, particularly in games focused on collaborative storytelling.
Derived terms
Translations
person who relates stories to an audience
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 故事員／故事员 (zh) (gùshìyuán), 故事员 (zh) (gùshìyuán)
- Czech: vypravěč (cs) m
- Finnish: kertoja (fi), tarinankertoja (fi), sadunkertoja, satuseppä, tarinoitsija (fi)
- French: conteur (fr) m, conteuse (fr) f, raconteur (fr) m, raconteuse (fr) f
- Old French: jangleor m, fableor m, conteor m
- German: Geschichtenerzähler m, Geschichtenerzählerin f
- Irish: scéalaí m, seanchaí m
- Italian: cantastorie m
- Japanese: 語り部 (かたりべ, kataribe), ストーリーテラー (sutōrīterā)
- Latin: nuntius (la) m, fabulātor, memorātor
- Latvian: stāstnieks m, stāstniece f, stāstītājs m, stāstītāja f
- Manx: breagerey, shennaghee, skeealeragh, skeealerey, skeealleyder
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- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forteller (no) m
- Portuguese: narrador (pt) m, contador de histórias m
- Romanian: povestitor (ro) m, narator (ro) m
- Russian: расска́зчик (ru) m (rasskázčik), расска́зчица (ru) f (rasskázčica), ска́зочник (ru) m (skázočnik), ска́зочница (ru) f (skázočnica) (fairy-tales)
- Scots: shenachie, talesman
- Scottish Gaelic: seanchaidh m, sgeuladair m, sgeulaiche f, neach-seanchais m, tadhg m
- Serbo-Croatian: pripovjèdāč (sh) m, pripovjedàčica (sh) f
- Spanish: cuentista m or f
- Swedish: berättare (sv) c
- Telugu: కథకుడు (te) (kathakuḍu)
- Thai: ผู้เล่าเรื่อง (pûu-lâo-rʉ̂ʉang)
- Welsh: storïwr m
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