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词汇 tale teller
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Definition of tale teller in English:

tale teller

nounˈteɪltɛlə
  • 1A person who tells stories.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Rd Plasschaert (stage name: Dusty Skye) is a taleteller and guide with a phenomenal ability to merge education, entertainment and audience interactivity.
    • Everyone draws from a bundle to select the first taletellers and the Knight is the fortunate soul who begins these tales on the way to Canterbury.
    • The Taleteller tells you that Cinderella and Prince Charming will meet, fall in love and live happily ever after.
    • She's a taleteller-- a storyteller, a spinner of Harper yarns-- more than a gossip, but the plain fact is that these days, if one wants to know something going on in the Weyr, Aherath is the very best bet.
    • Biswell sets patiently about the task of weighing the evidence, and is grown-up enough not to wax indignant when he discovers that this professional taleteller sometimes told tales.
    1. 1.1 A person who spreads gossip or reveals secrets.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It determined that the poster, as a taleteller (repeater), though in Cyberspace, was just as guilty of libel as anyone else who purposefully slanders a person's reputation.
      • Its author had the reputation of a notorious taleteller even before he got a book contract.
      Synonyms
      informant

Derivatives

  • tale-telling

  • noun
    • Junior and I had words that evening, where it turned out he was the victim of schoolboy tale-telling without a shred of evidence.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There in those pages was all the discipline of pure tale-telling and its discovery for me was as thrilling as the discovery of a new voice always is.
      • Brothers and Keepers is part of the long tradition of tale-telling, self-discovery, and social arraignment that constitutes African American autobiography.
      • In April 1995, around 20 people gathered for the club's first night at the Watermill, which Taffy set up as part of his year-long arts residency of tale-telling around the area, funded by SLDC.
      • There is a Southern quality of tale-telling in these unusual works.
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