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Definition of Narrator

1. Noun. Someone who tells a story.

Definition of Narrator

1. n. One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.

Definition of Narrator

1. Noun. One who narrates or tells stories. ¹

2. Noun. (narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story. ¹

3. Noun. (film and television) The person providing the voice-over in a documentary. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Narrator

1. one that narrates [n -S] - See also: narrates

Lexicographical Neighbors of Narrator

Literary usage of Narrator

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Israel by Heinrich Ewald (1883)
"It is quite otherwise with the work of the Fifth narrator. ... Accordingly we have here a narrator who, though he delineates some points anew with his own ..."

2. The Book of Buried Treasure: Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and by Ralph Delahaye Paine (1911)
"Kidd asked him to spare a barrel of Cyder, which the narrator with great importunity ... Kidd offered the narrator several pieces of damnified 2 Muslin and ..."

3. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1909)
"The narrator. — Sometimes a story will move more easily if you imagine yourself to ... But the narrator can imagine himself to be one of the minor persons, ..."

4. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1911)
"The narrator. — Sometimes a story will move more easily if you imagine yourself to ... But the narrator can imagine himself to be one of the minor persons, ..."

5. The Study of a Novel by Selden Lincoln Whitcomb (1905)
"The narrator. His Point of View. — It is clear that there can be no narration without a ... The primary narrator is always the author, in propria persona, ..."

6. The Medieval Popular Ballad (1914)
"THE CHANGE OF narrator IN THE BALLAD A number of ballads present the curious feature of changing the person of the narrator. " True as Gold " (No. ..."

7. The Technique of the Mystery Story by Carolyn Wells (1913)
"The narrator in the Detective Story The Teller of the Detective Story is an ... Poe, with his quick sense of fitness, chose the narrator best calculated for ..."

8. The Artist at Work: Narrative Technique in Chrétien de Troyes by Evelyn Mullally (1988)
"The Disappearance of the Omniscient narrator The world of Yvain is more varied than that of Erec, more ambiguous than that of ..."

9. The History of Israel by Heinrich Ewald (1883)
"It is quite otherwise with the work of the Fifth narrator. ... Accordingly we have here a narrator who, though he delineates some points anew with his own ..."

10. The Book of Buried Treasure: Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and by Ralph Delahaye Paine (1911)
"Kidd asked him to spare a barrel of Cyder, which the narrator with great importunity ... Kidd offered the narrator several pieces of damnified 2 Muslin and ..."

11. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1909)
"The narrator. — Sometimes a story will move more easily if you imagine yourself to ... But the narrator can imagine himself to be one of the minor persons, ..."

12. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1911)
"The narrator. — Sometimes a story will move more easily if you imagine yourself to ... But the narrator can imagine himself to be one of the minor persons, ..."

13. The Study of a Novel by Selden Lincoln Whitcomb (1905)
"The narrator. His Point of View. — It is clear that there can be no narration without a ... The primary narrator is always the author, in propria persona, ..."

14. The Medieval Popular Ballad (1914)
"THE CHANGE OF narrator IN THE BALLAD A number of ballads present the curious feature of changing the person of the narrator. " True as Gold " (No. ..."

15. The Artist at Work: Narrative Technique in Chrétien de Troyes by Evelyn Mullally (1988)
"The Disappearance of the Omniscient narrator The world of Yvain is more varied than that of Erec, more ambiguous than that of ..."

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