NARRATE, NARRATION, NARRATIVE, NARRATOR
NOUNS
► DEDUCTION a detailed narration or account → a1531 obs.
► OCCURRENT a narration of what has happened → a1577 obs.
► TELLING a story, narrative; talk, conversation; news; anything worth revealing or telling → 1660 Sc. & Eng. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► ACCOMPTANT a narrator → 1655 obs.
► ACCOUNTANT a person who presents a narrative account; a narrator → 1655 obs.
► ACCOUNTER a narrator → 1356 obs.
► FABULAR a narrator or recorder of tales or fictions → 1565 obs.
► FABULATOR ► FABULATOUR one who fabulates or relates fables; a teller of tales or stories; a story-teller; a narrator → 1604
► FABULIST a professional story-teller; a narrator → 1605 obs.
► NARRATRESS a female narrator → 1798
► NARRATRIX a female narrator → 1809
► SAYAR a narrator or author; a poetical writer; a poet → c1460 Sc.
► SAYER a poet, a narrator → 1513 obs.
► TALESMAN the teller of a tale; the author of a story; one who brings news or originates a statement; a relater, a narrator → a1568 obs. exc. Sc.
► TALES-MASTER the teller of a tale; the author of a story; the authority for a statement, one who brings news or originates a statement; a relater, a narrator → 1656 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TALE-TELLER a teller of tales or stories; a narrator → 1387
► YARN-SPINNER one who ‘spins a yarn’; a story-teller; a narrator; a chatterer → 1865 colloq.
► YARN-TELLER a narrator, a storyteller → 1891 sl.
VERBS
► BETELL to speak of, to declare, to narrate → c1205 obs.
► DEVISE to tell, to narrate → 1952 Amer. dial.
► FABULATE to relate as a tale or myth; to talk or narrate in fables → 1616 obs.
► NORATE to narrate → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)