Narrator
[nə'reɪtə] or [næ'retɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.
Checker: Sandra
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Relater, historian.
Edited by Janet
Examples
- He is very precise about dates and facts, and has the power of making us believe that the narrator of the tale must have been an eyewitness. Plato. The Republic.
- My appearance here, as narrator, is the necessary consequence of this arrangement. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There is a calm sense of detachment about this description that has been possessed by the narrator even in the most anxious moments of his career. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Socrates, who is the narrator. Plato. The Republic.
- You will find me a very awkward narrator, Miss Dashwood; I hardly know where to begin. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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