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narratore

narrator

noun nahr-rah-TOH-reh Rare
Arts & Culture Literature

Origin: From Latin narrator, from narrare (to tell).

Also means

storyteller

Usage Note

Narratore is the masculine form; the feminine is narratrice. In literary analysis it refers to the narrative voice — narratore onnisciente (omniscient narrator), narratore inattendibile (unreliable narrator). In everyday speech it can simply mean a skilled storyteller.

Examples

"Il narratore del romanzo è un bambino di dieci anni."

Natural Translation

The narrator of the novel is a ten-year-old child.

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