NARRATOR Definition & Meaning

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narrator

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[ nar-ey-ter, na-rey‑, nar-uh‑ ]

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noun

a person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc.
a person who adds spoken commentary to a film, television program, slide show, etc.

narrator

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noun

a person who tells a story or gives an account of something
a person who speaks in accompaniment of a film, television programme, etc

narrator

A person who tells a story; in literature, the voice that an author takes on to tell a story. This voice can have a personality quite different from the author's. For example, in his story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe makes his narrator a raving lunatic.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of narrator¹

First recorded in 1610–20; from Latin narrātor “narrator, historian” narrate ( def ), -or ²( def )

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“Oakland in ’87 was hella wild,” gloats rapper Too Short, the film’s narrator.

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Ostensibly, the narrator is going to Arkansas because their mom has asked them to come and help her find their father, who has disappeared again.

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The narrator is an actor worried about her faltering play; a lunch with a much younger man upends her world.

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As director and narrator Dawn Logsdon describes in her documentary “Free for All: The Public Library,” these horrors inspired America's librarians to codify their unifying principles into a document.

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Right away, Cave is positioning Nancy as a potentially unreliable narrator instead of letting the audience figure that out for themselves, a realization that wouldn’t be difficult, given how quickly Nancy unravels.

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