storyteller
storyteller noun: a person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.
Noun
storyteller (plural storytellers)
- A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.
- Near-synonym: storywriter
- "Charlotte is the best storyteller I ever heard," said Fern, poking her dish towel into a cereal bowl.1952, E. B. White, Charlotte's Web
- Synonyms:
- storywriter
- 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 Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 243
- A game master, particularly in games focused on collaborative storytelling.
storyteller meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
storyteller in Hindi
- person who relates stories to an audience
- कहानीकार kahānīkār
storyteller in Tamil
- கதாசிரியர், கதை சொல்பவர், கதைசொல்லி, கதை அளப்பவர்
storyteller in Marathi
- कथाकार, कथा सांगणारा
storyteller in Bengali
- গল্পকথক, গল্পবলিয়ে
More languagesFewer languages
- storyteller in Telugu
- కథకుడు kathakuḍu
- storyteller in Malayalam
- കാഥികൻ, കഥാകാരൻ, ആഖ്യായകൻ, ആഖ്യാതാവ്
- storyteller in Kannada
- ಕಥೆಗಾರ, ಕಥಾಲೇಖಕ, ಆಖ್ಯಾನಕಾರ
- storyteller in Punjabi
- ਕਹਾਣੀਕਾਰ
- storyteller in Gujarati
- વાર્તાલેખક
- storyteller in Odia
- କାହାଣୀକାର
- storyteller in Nepali
- कथाकार
- storyteller in Arabic
- قَصَّاص qaṣṣāṣ, قَصَّاصَة qaṣṣāṣa, رَاوٍ rāwin, رَاوِيَة rāwiya
- storyteller in Indonesian
- pengisah
- storyteller in Persian
- قصهگو qesse-gu, راوی râvi
- storyteller in Thai
- ผู้เล่าเรื่อง pûu-lâo-rʉ̂ʉang, ผู้บรรยาย pûu-ban-yaai
Examples of storyteller in a sentence
- He was a great storyteller and could make up a story on the spot.
- What had come over their favorite storyteller to mistalk like that?
- My Kookum was a storyteller and all the stories she told were told in Cree.
Synonyms of storyteller
Forms of storyteller
| plural | storytellers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | story-teller |
Origin of storyteller
From story + teller.
Words formed from storyteller
Questions about storyteller
- What does storyteller mean?
- Storyteller means a person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.
- What is storyteller in Hindi?
- Storyteller in Hindi is कहानीकार (kahānīkār). See Storyteller meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is storyteller?
- Storyteller is a noun.
- What is the plural of storyteller?
- The plural of storyteller is storytellers.
Words near storyteller in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: storyteller (page history and authors); storyteller (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); storyteller (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); storyteller (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); storyteller (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); storyteller (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); storyteller (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); storyteller (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); storyteller (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); storyteller (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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