raconteur

UK/ˌɹæk.ɒnˈtɜː//ˌɹæk.ɑnˈtɝ/

raconteur noun: a storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit.

Noun

raconteur (plural raconteurs)

A storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit.
- He was tempted to try the last door—to look into the room of evil fame; but he reflected that this would be indiscreet, since Colonel Capadose handled the brush—as a raconteur—with such freedom. There might be a ghost and there might not; but the Colonel himself, he inclined to think, was the most...1888, Henry James, The Liar
- It is notoriously possible for the author of a fictitious narrative to become, after a time, unable to distinguish it from a statement of actual facts. There is a case on record in which a learned judge communicated to the Psychical Society in perfect good faith a ghost story, all the principal...1905, W. G. Aston, chapter 5, in Shinto: The Way of the Gods, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 79

raconteur (third-person singular simple present raconteurs, present participle raconteuring, simple past and past participle raconteured)

To make witty remarks or stories.
- The two of them turn to each other and raise an eyebrow each, their signal to slip into alternating raconteuring.2003, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, →ISBN, page 155

چٹکلے سنانے والا

narrator, storyteller, anecdotalist: സരസകഥകൾ പറഞ്ഞു രസിപ്പിക്കുന്നവൻ, കാഥികൻ, കഥാപ്രസംഗക്കാരൻ, കഥാകാരൻ, ആഖ്യാതാവ്, കഥകൻ

ಕತೆಹೇಳುಗ, ಕತೆಕೊರೆಗ

He was tempted to try the last door—to look into the room of evil fame; but he reflected that this would be indiscreet, since Colonel Capadose handled the brush—as a raconteur—with such freedom.1888, Henry James, The Liar:
They had their origin in his own talent as a distinguished raconteur.1905, W. G. Aston, chapter 5, in Shinto: The Way of the Gods, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 79:

Noun
plural	raconteurs
Verb
third-person singular present	raconteurs
present participle	raconteuring
past participle	raconteured
past	raconteured

Borrowed from French raconteur.

What does raconteur mean?: Raconteur means a storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit.
What is raconteur in Urdu?: Raconteur in Urdu is چٹکلے سنانے والا. See Raconteur meaning in Urdu.
How do you use raconteur in a sentence?: He was tempted to try the last door—to look into the room of evil fame; but he reflected that this would be indiscreet, since Colonel Capadose handled the brush—as a raconteur—with such freedom.
What part of speech is raconteur?: Raconteur can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce raconteur?: Raconteur is pronounced /ˌɹæk.ɒnˈtɜː/ (UK).
What is the plural of raconteur?: The plural of raconteur is raconteurs.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-raconteur.ogg, en-au-raconteur.ogg.

Cite this entry: “raconteur.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/raconteur. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.