Download the app
educalingo
Search
The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
Arthur Herzog

Meaning of "narrator" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF NARRATOR

narrator  [nəˈreɪtə] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NARRATOR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Narrator is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NARRATOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Narrative

A narrative is any account of connected events, presented to a reader or listener in a sequence of written or spoken words, or in a sequence of pictures. Narrative can be organized in a number of thematic and/or formal/stylistic categories: non-fiction; fictionalized accounts of historical events; and fiction proper. Narrative is found in all forms of human creativity and art, including speech, writing, songs, film, television, games, photography, theatre, and visual arts such as painting that describes a sequence of events. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, "to tell", which is derived from the adjective gnarus, "knowing" or "skilled". Narrative can also be found in oral storytelling processes, as seen in many Indigenous American communities. Narrative storytelling is used to guide children on proper behavior, cultural history, formation of a communal identity, and values. Narratives also act as living entities through cultural stories, as they are passed on from generation to generation.

Definition of narrator in the English dictionary

The definition of narrator in the dictionary is a person who tells a story or gives an account of something. Other definition of narrator is a person who speaks in accompaniment of a film, television programme, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NARRATOR


accelerator
ækˈsɛləˌreɪtə
administrator
ədˈmɪnɪˌstreɪtə
cocurator
ˌkəʊkjʊəˈreɪtə
crater
ˈkreɪtə
curator
kjʊəˈreɪtə
decorator
ˈdɛkəˌreɪtə
generator
ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪtə
Greater
ˈɡreɪtə
gyrator
dʒaɪˈreɪtə
illustrator
ˈɪləstreɪtə
integrator
ˈɪntɪˌɡreɪtə
moderator
ˈmɒdəˌreɪtə
operator
ˈɒpəˌreɪtə
raita
ˈreɪtə
rater
ˈreɪtə
refrigerator
rɪˈfrɪdʒəˌreɪtə
separator
ˈsɛpəˌreɪtə
tolerator
ˌtɒləˈreɪtə
traitor
ˈtreɪtə
vibrator
vaɪˈbreɪtə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NARRATOR

narras
narratable
narrate
narration
narrational
narrative
narratively
narratological
narratologist
narratology
narratory
narre
narrow
narrow boat
narrow gauge
narrow money
narrow seas
narrow squeak
narrow-gauge line
narrow-minded

WORDS THAT END LIKE NARRATOR

arbitrator
calculator
comparator
configurator
demonstrator
evaporator
imperator
incinerator
incorporator
liberator
linear accelerator
machine operator
numerator
orator
particle accelerator
perpetrator
preparator
random number generator
respirator
switchboard operator
tour operator

Synonyms and antonyms of narrator in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «NARRATOR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «narrator» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of narrator

Translation of «narrator» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF NARRATOR

Find out the translation of narrator to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of narrator from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «narrator» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

解说员
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

narrador
570 millions of speakers

English

narrator
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बयान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الراوي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

рассказчик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

narrador
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কথক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

narrateur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Peramal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Erzähler
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ナレーター
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

해설자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Narrator
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kể chuyện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கதை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कथनक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hikâyeci
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

narratore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

narrator
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

оповідач
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

narator
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αφηγητής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verteller
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

berättare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fortelleren
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of narrator

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NARRATOR»

The term «narrator» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.440 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Quite widely used
88
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «narrator» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of narrator
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «narrator».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NARRATOR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «narrator» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «narrator» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about narrator

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «NARRATOR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word narrator.
1
David Attenborough
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
2
Ann Beattie
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
3
James Lee Burke
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
4
Anne Enright
I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
5
Arthur Herzog
The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
6
S. E. Hinton
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
7
Will Hobbs
Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry.
8
Eyvind Johnson
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.
9
Caroline Knapp
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
10
Gary Krist
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NARRATOR»

Discover the use of narrator in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to narrator and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad
Jonathan L. Ready offers the first comprehensive examination of Homer's similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition.
Jonathan L. Ready, 2011
2
"A great butler": the unreliable narrator in Kazuo ...
In Kazuo Ishiguro ́s The Remains of the Day the first person narrator Stevens, a butler on the verge of retirement, undertakes a journey to meet – for what is likely the last time in their lives – his former coworker and love interest ...
Lynn Bay, 2012
3
The Book Thief
HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939.
Markus Zusak, 2008
4
Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator
This work investigates changes in punctuation, sentence structure, and letter and diary writing in the period to illuminate the emergence of a different prose style and the birth of the narrator
Elspeth Jajdelska, 2007
5
Milton's Epic Voice: The Narrator in Paradise Lost
One of the most accessible critical studies of Paradise Lost—and one frequently recommended by those teaching Milton—is Anne Ferry's Milton's Epic Voice.
Anne Ferry, 1963
6
Call Me Ishmael - A Critical Analysis of the Narrator in ...
However the hunt ends fatally for Ahab and his crew: Moby-Dick kills them all. The whole story is narrated by Ishmael, one of the sailors on the Pequod and the only survivor of the disaster.
Susanne Pirner, 2007
7
Telling Women's Lives: Subject/narrator/reader/text
Making this work available again in the revised edition is a service to scholarship and to public enlightenment." —Arthur Hertzberg "Since it first appeared in Hebrew in 1958, Tradition and Crisis has had a tremendous impact on ...
Judy Long, 1999
8
The Fallen Narrator in 'The Fall of the House of Usher'
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Wuppertal, course: Grundlagenseminar B: Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft, language: English, abstract: With ...
Bianca Müller, 2009
9
Giambologna: Narrator of the Catholic Reformation
"Mary Gibbons's appraisal provides the first scholarly study of Giambologna's remarkably original religious sculpture in relief.
Mary Weitzel Gibbons, 1995
10
The uneasy narrator: Chinese fiction from the traditional to ...
This book offers a historical analysis of the narrative form of Chinese fiction, and traces in detail its development from the traditional mode to the modern.
I-heng Zhao, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NARRATOR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term narrator is used in the context of the following news items.
1
My Sunshine Away review by MO Walsh – an intense and unsettling …
But suspicion falls on everyone; not least the nameless narrator, who has ... The narrator shaves the sides of his head in sympathy with Lindy's ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Hear The Wing Sing & Pinball 1973 by Haruki Murakami; trans. Ted …
The trio of central characters comprised of the young unnamed narrator, his friend, “The Rat” and the bartender, J, become flesh and blood in a ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
3
Tales of Jellyfish by Janice Galloway; tales of motherhood and other …
From the outset of the collection, a child's trip to the seaside has an air of innocence about to be lost, as the narrator realises that her son's ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
4
4 books to read this summer
In his third novel, this young author from New Zealand skillfully intervenes as an elusive narrator. He plays with flashbacks and flash-forwards, ... «Deutsche Welle, Jul 15»
5
Expedition 44 crew blasts off, headed to International Space Station
"A very smooth ride to orbit following launch from Baikonur," NASA TV's narrator exclaimed. After the six-hour trip, the Soyuz spacecraft will ... «UPI.com, Jul 15»
6
'Amy' director opts for showing vs. telling singer's tortured life
Neither uses a narrator to hold the audience's hand. "Both of them were different challenges," Kapadia said in a phone interview. "I didn't begin ... «Duluth News Tribune, Jul 15»
7
Mr. Robot: "3xpl0its.wmv" Review
It's an interesting side effect of having him as the narrator but doesn't make up for not getting to know the characters beyond a superficial level. «IGN, Jul 15»
8
Liverpool actor Mark Moraghan on his legacy as Thomas the Tank …
Liverpool actor Mark Moraghan says his role as narrator on 'Thomas and Friends' is a great legacy for his children and grandchildren. «ITV News, Jul 15»
9
Portland Center Stage's JAW festival: Where plays go to grow up
As the story progresses, the town residents' lives intertwine to reveal a secret about the narrator — "something she's trying to come to terms with ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
10
Reality Check: On 'Alaskan Bush People,' Noah Brown's lonely …
As we see Knowles and his two friends walking to their Bush plane, the narrator says they are “bringing only the bare essentials: guns, chain ... «Alaska Dispatch News, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Narrator [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/narrator>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z