storyteller
Americannoun
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a person who tells or writes stories or anecdotes.
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a person who tells more or less trivial falsehoods; fibber.
noun
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a person who tells stories
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informal a liar
Other Word Forms
- storytelling noun
Etymology
Origin of storyteller
1700–10; story 1 + teller ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who died in 2025, was a prolific storyteller.
If Papa had gone all over the world, he couldn’t have found a better storyteller than my little sister.
From Literature
"To the world, he was an Academy Award-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me, he was simply everything," Luciana Duvall said.
From Barron's
"To the world, he was an Academy Award-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me, he was simply everything," she said in a statement.
From BBC
Newsom’s father’s family was full of more traditional Democrats and Irish Catholic storytellers who worked in banking, homebuilding, law enforcement and law.
From Los Angeles Times
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