He is a storyteller and a poet.
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Storyteller
Synonyms for "storyteller" (107 found)
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Strong matches (32)
Related words (53)
humoristinditerliterary artistliterary craftsmanliterary criticliterary manlitterateurlogographermagazine writerman of lettersmonographermusic criticmythmakermythomaniacmythopoetnewspapermannovelettistnovelistpaltererpamphleteer
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pathological liarpenwomanperjurerpoetprose writerpseudologistpseudologuereciterrecounterrelatorreviewerromancerromancistsagamansatanscenario writerscenaristscribescriptwritershort-story writersir john mandevillespinner of yarnsstoriertaletellertechnical writerteller of talesword painterwordsmithwriteryarn spinneryarner
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5 entriesTranslations
154 translations across 48 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- رَاوٍ noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- رَاوِيَة noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- قَصَّاص noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- قَصَّاصَة noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Armenian
1 entries- հեքիաթասաց noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Belarusian
4 entries- апавяда́льнік noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- апавяда́льніца noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- апавяда́ч noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- апавяда́чка noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Bulgarian
2 entries- разказва́ч noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- разказва́чка noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Catalan
2 entries- contista noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- rondallaire noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- چیرۆکبێژ noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 故事員 /故事员 noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Czech
2 entries- vypravěč noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- vypravěčka noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Estonian
2 entries- jutustaja noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- jutuvestja noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Finnish
4 entries- jutunkertoja noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- kertoja noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- sadunkertoja noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- satuilija noun (liar)
French
4 entries- conteur noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- conteuse noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- raconteur noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- raconteuse noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Georgian
1 entries- მთხრობელი noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
German
4 entries- Erzähler noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- Erzählerin noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- Geschichtenerzähler noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- Geschichtenerzählerin noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Hindi
1 entries- कहानीकार noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Hungarian
3 entries- elbeszélő noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- mesemondó noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- mesélő noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Indonesian
1 entries- pengisah noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Irish
2 entries- scéalaí noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- seanchaí noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Italian
1 entries- cantastorie noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Japanese
3 entries- ストーリーテラー noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- 語り手 noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- 語り部 noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Karelian
3 entries- kertoja noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- starinanšanoja noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- starinoiččija noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Korean
1 entries- 이야기꾼 noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Latin
3 entries- fabulātor noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- memorātor noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- nuntius noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Latvian
4 entries- stāstniece noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- stāstnieks noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- stāstītāja noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- stāstītājs noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pasakotojas noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Macedonian
2 entries- раскажувач noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- раскажувачка noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Manx
4 entries- breagerey noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- shennaghee noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- skeealeragh noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- skeealerey noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- çîrokbêj noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forteller noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Old French
3 entries- conteor noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- fableor noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- jangleor noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Persian
2 entries- راوی noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- قصهگو noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Polish
4 entries- baj noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- bajacz noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- bajaczka noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- bajarka noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Portuguese
2 entries- contador de histórias noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- narrador noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Romanian
4 entries- naratoare noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- narator noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- povestitoare noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- povestitor noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Russian
4 entries- вы́думщик noun (liar)
- вы́думщица noun (liar)
- расска́зчик noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- расска́зчица noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Scots
2 entries- shenachie noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- talesman noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- neach-seanchais noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- seanchaidh noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- sgeuladair noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- sgeulaiche noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pripovedàčica noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- pripovjedàčica noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- pripovjèdāč noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- pripovèdāč noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Sicilian
3 entries- canta-stori noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- ciraulu noun (liar)
- cunta-stori noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Slovak
2 entries- rozprávač noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- rozprávačka noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Slovene
2 entries- pripovedovalec noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- pripovedovalka noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Spanish
2 entries- cuentista noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- narrador noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Swedish
1 entries- berättare noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Telugu
1 entries- కథకుడు noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Thai
2 entries- ผู้บรรยาย noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- ผู้เล่าเรื่อง noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Turkish
3 entries- masalcı noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- masalcı noun (liar)
- palavracı noun (liar)
Ukrainian
4 entries- казка́р noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- казка́рка noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- опові́дач noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
- опові́дачка noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Welsh
1 entries- storïwr noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Yiddish
1 entries- דערציילער noun (person who relates stories to an audience)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
In the shadow of the Leaning Tower of Pisa sits the town storyteller, eating a bowl of pea soup. After that he tells some children the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea".
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My uncle’s whole family came to hear the storyteller, and even some of my aunt’s relatives from the neighboring housing on the other side of the hill.
Source: tatoeba (3011295)
Each single-author book is immensely particular, a story told as only one storyteller could recount it.
Source: tatoeba (3456045)
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