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story-teller

story-teller is the alternative form of storyteller.

Meaning of storyteller

Noun

storyteller (plural storytellers)

  1. A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.
    • Near-synonym: storywriter
    Synonyms:
    storywriter
  2. A liar; a fibber.
    • There was once upon a time a king, who had a daughter, and she was such an awful story-teller, that you couldn't find a greater anywhere.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 243
  3. (roleplaying games) A game master, particularly in games focused on collaborative storytelling.

Forms of story-teller

pluralstory-tellers

Questions about story-teller

What is story-teller the alternative form of?
Story-teller is the alternative form of storyteller.

Words near story-teller in the dictionary

  1. story point
  2. story time
  3. story times
  4. story-poem
  5. story-poems
  6. story-teller
  7. story-telling
  8. storyable
  9. Storyani
  10. storyboard
  11. storyboarded

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