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Answer for the clue "Raconteur ", 8 letters:
narrator

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Word definitions for narrator in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who tells a story [syn: storyteller , teller ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Narrator \Nar*ra"tor\, n. [L.] One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who narrates or tells stories. 2 (context narratology English) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story. 3 (context film and television English) The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.

Usage examples of narrator.

Second, its account of events comes to us through a narrator who at times assumes authorial omniscience but who is also presented as partial, not fully informed, and limited in understanding.

Only a third avatar of the authorial function can account for it all, a Kundera who is both author and narrator, one who simultaneously controls his writing and directs our reading.

Television requires the existence of studio technicians, narrators and others in the transmitting side - and the availability of a viewer in the receiving side.

The costs of using a first-person describer may be even higher if your narrator is someone whose values are quite different from your own.

And then I had like fallen into the bed and then,as it looked to me, been waked up to be told to get off out, to itty off home, they did not want to viddy Your Humble Narrator never not no more, O my brothers.

Auleria Laque, who has just won in court the right not to be forced to undergo immortality treatments, becomes the target of several pro--and anti-immortality conspiracies, including the mysterious narrator, who just wants to be obsolete.

He used the nudgers to highlight, to slow and speed the motion, to direct the narrator to points of interest.

They saw themselves, you could see, as real grown-up devotchkas already, what with the old hip-swing when they saw your Faithful Narrator, brothers, and padded groodies and red all ploshed on their goobers.

The narrator said the man about to come in for interview had tabes dorsalis and general paresis.

If our point-of-view narrator is less articulate or educated or ironic or sympathetic than we are, we may also have to give up our writerly egos, muting our own voice in order to speak through the voice of our narrator.

If the sacerdotal laws allowed the reservation of judgments and the allegory of words, I would accept the proposed dignity on condition that I might be a philosopher at home, and abroad a narrator of apologues and parables.

Fire Team Alpha, had a gift for verbal impersonations, and he sounded exactly like one of the narrators from a Corps training holovid, or from one of the travelogues the Imperial Astrographic Society produced.

He took no notice of what Billyboy and Dim did to your Humble Narrator.

The abstract speculations of the metaphysician would not have sufficed for him, nor would the continuous and simple creation of the narrator who narrates to amuse himself, nor would the ardor of the semi-animal of the man-ofpleasure who abandons himself to the frenzy of vice.

Although no writer living inside human skin can be totally objective, if she wishes to create a fictional dream that appears strictly reportorial, she can employ an objective narrator to tell her tale.