raconteur

nounanecdote teller

Synonyms for raconteur

noun anecdote teller

Word Origin & History

"storyteller, person skilled in relating anecdotes," 1828, from French raconteur, from raconter "to recount, tell, narrate," from re- (see re-) + Old French aconter "to count, render account" (see account (v.); and cf. recount (v.1)). Related: Raconteuse (fem.).

Example Sentences for raconteur

The raconteur allowed an interval for the astonishing news to be absorbed.

His frankness was not the least of his charms as a raconteur.

He was an amusing companion, however, and noted as a raconteur.

After all, the main end of a raconteur must be to give pleasure.

There is a print of Sir George Simpson behind one raconteur's head.

But Harriet Martineau was never the raconteur, she was first the educator.

Neither to the traveller nor the raconteur is Yreka a place to linger in.

I won, during the campaign, quite a reputation for a raconteur.

As a raconteur he is unsurpassed, and in consequence most amusing company.

Here was adventure with no raconteur's glamour, no bookish gloss.

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Synonyms for raconteur

conversationist

discourser

narrator

storyteller

talker

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Synonyms for raconteur

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