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narrator Definition

nar·ra·tor (narāt′ər, -ət-; na rātər, nə-)

noun

  1. a person who relates a story or account
  2. a person who reads descriptive or narrative passages, as between scenes of a play

Etymology: L < narratus: see narrate

narrator Synonyms

narrator

n.

teller of tales, reciter, raconteur; see storyteller.

narrator Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • say: But for weeks, said the narrator, " we were afraid to venture outside our own doors.
  • play: Matthew Rhys, who has appeared in BBC's ' The Lost World ' , plays the narrator, First Voice.
  • do: Where does the narrator think the bird comes from?
  • use: Here, Paul recommends using a narrator to help move the story along.
  • have: This, a children's book, is the first novel to have an autistic narrator.

Converse of subject

  • tell: The Broken Places is told by a third person narrator with access to Paul's thoughts.

Adjective modifier

  • omniscient: And how much can we believe our omniscient narrator?
  • Miltonic: The Miltonic narrator 's central strategy here is to empty himself of poetic agency.
  • unreliable: It's the same device that any unreliable narrator employs.
  • unnamed: When the unnamed narrator of Jeff Povey's The Serial Killers Club is attacked, he has no choice to defend himself.
  • unseen: After he left radio he was the unseen narrator of the television series The Untouchables from 1959 until 1963.
  • female: Do you have a preference for a male or female narrator?

Noun used with modifier

  • first-person: Much of the discussion of the book has centered round Hornby's use of a female first-person narrator.
  • person: The Broken Places is told by a third person narrator with access to Paul's thoughts.
  • child: The child narrator explains the importance of names in Chinese culture, and how giving your child certain names can affect your fortune.

Possessives

  • father: The narrator's father had worked in that yard for almost fifty years.
  • voice: The expression of the narrator's voice helps pupils to understand idiomatic language.

Possessives

  • film: Many of the main players in the Rutles career are featured in archive interviews or in discussion with the film's narrator.

Preposition: of

  • story: The narrator of this story asked him why he halted.
  • book: Interview with the author Who is the narrator of the book?