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narrator

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//nəˈɹeɪ.tə//
  • United States//ˈnæˌɹeɪ.təɹ//
  • United States//ˈnæɹ.ə.təɹ//
  • United States//ˈnɛ-//
  • United States//nəˈɹeɪ.təɹ//

One who narrates or tells stories.

noun

  1. 1

    One who narrates or tells stories.

  2. 2

    The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.

  3. 3

    The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.

    Morgan Freeman was the narrator of March of the Penguins.

Etymology

From narrate + -or, from Latin narrātor. By surface analysis, Latin narr- + -ate + -or.

Forms

plural
narrators
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).