Narrator

Definition of narrator:

part of speech: noun

One who tells a story.

Usage examples for narrator:

• If Strether were really the narrator whether in the first person or the third, he could not use his own talk in this manner; he would have to tell us himself about his past. "The Craft of Fiction", Percy Lubbock.

• An open box, says the narrator containing some bottles of Florence oil, was placed in a room which was seldom visited. "Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match", Francis C. Woodworth.

• All myths that are at all of sacred character are believed not to be handed down by tradition, but to be dreamed by each narrator "The Religion of the Indians of California", A. L. Kroeber.

• The Etiquette of Escape There is a girl in one of William de Morgan's books who interrupts the narrator of a breathless tiger- hunting story with the rather disconcerting warning, " I'm on the side of the tiger; I always am." "If I May", A. A. Milne.