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Webster 1913 Edition

Narrator

Nar-ra′tor

,

Noun.

[L.]

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

Webster 1828 Edition

Narrator

NARRATOR

,

Noun.

One that narrates; one that relates a series of events or transactions.

Definition 2024

narrator

narrator

See also: narrátor

English

Noun

narrator ‎(plural narrators)

One who narrates or tells stories.
(narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.
(film and television) The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.

Synonyms

storyteller

Related terms

Translations

in story

Amharic: ተራኪ ‎(täraki)
Czech: vypravěč (cs) m
Danish: fortæller c
Dutch: verteller (nl) m, vertelster f
Finnish: kertoja (fi)
French: narrateur (fr) m, narratrice (fr) f
German: Erzähler (de) m, Erzählerin f
Hungarian: elbeszélő (hu), mesemondó
Italian: narratore (it) m, narratrice f
Latvian: stāstītājs m, stāstītāja f, stāstnieks m, stāstniece f

Malay: pengisah, narator, pengarang, pencerita
Maori: kaitaki kōrero
Navajo: halneʼé
Northern Sami: muitaleaddji
Norwegian:

Bokmål: forteller m

Nynorsk: forteljar m
Portuguese: narrador (pt) m
Russian: расска́зчик (ru) m ‎(rasskázčik), расска́зчица (ru) f ‎(rasskázčica)
Serbo-Croatian: pripovjèdāč (sh) m, pripovjedàčica (sh) f
Spanish: narrador m

in film and television

Danish: fortæller c
Dutch: verteller (nl) m, vertelster f
French: narrateur (fr) m, narratrice (fr) f
Hungarian: narrátor (hu)
Italian: narratore (it) m, narratrice f
Japanese: ナレーター ‎(narētā)
Malay: pencerita, pengarang, pengisah, narator

Northern Sami: muitaleaddji
Norwegian:

Bokmål: forteller m, stemme (no) m

Nynorsk: forteljar m
Portuguese: narrador (pt) m
Russian: ди́ктор (ru) m ‎(díktor), ди́кторша (ru) f ‎(díktorša)

Latin

Verb

nārrātor

second-person singular future passive imperative of nārrō
third-person singular future passive imperative of nārrō

References

narrator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
narrator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “narrator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.