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Narrator

One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.

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Anecdotist 76% connected

One who relates or collects anecdotes.

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Fabulist 76% connected

One who invents or writes fables.

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Raconteur 76% connected

A relater; a storyteller.

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Speaker 76% connected

One who speaks.

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Talker 76% connected

One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.

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Utterer 76% connected

One who utters.

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Tell 74% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Tell 74% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Teller 92% connected

One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.

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First person noun · 78% connection

pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur

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Storyteller noun · 78% connection

someone who tells a story

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Third person noun · 78% connection

pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur

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Account statement noun · 78% connection

a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance; "they send me an accounting every month"

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Action noun · 78% connection

The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfo…

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Affairs noun · 78% connection

transactions of professional or public interest; "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state"

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Balance of international payments noun · 78% connection

a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year; "a favorable bala…

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Balance of payments noun · 78% connection

a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year; "a favorable bala…

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Calendar noun · 78% connection

a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc.); "I have you on my calendar for next Monday"

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Ceremony noun · 78% connection

Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matter…

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Chain noun · 78% connection

A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains;…

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Chronologer noun · 78% connection

A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology.

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Chronology noun · 78% connection

The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper d…

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Commentary verb · 78% connection

A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries…

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Course noun · 78% connection

Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.

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Dealings noun · 78% connection

the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "h…

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Diary noun · 78% connection

A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a dia…

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Drama noun · 78% connection

A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.

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Dream noun · 78% connection

The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

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Fable noun · 78% connection

The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

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Foreign exchange noun · 78% connection

the system by which one currency is exchanged for another; enables international transactions to take place

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