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# narrator

noun (a narrator, narrators)

«narrator» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The person or voice who tells the story in a book, poem, film or play. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#m1)
2. A person who reads or speaks the words that explain what is happening, as in a documentary, audiobook or school play. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#m2)

### In the lessons

In English lessons you learn to find the narrator and ask who is telling the story: a first-person narrator says "I", a third-person narrator says "he", "she" or "they". A narrator can be honest or unreliable (not to be fully trusted). In school plays the narrator explains the scenes between the acting. Phrases: first-person narrator, third-person narrator, unreliable narrator, the narrator tells us.

### Examples

- The narrator of the story is a little dog. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#x1)
- In our class play I was the narrator. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#x2)
- "I opened the door," says the narrator, so it is a first-person story. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#x3)
- David Attenborough is the narrator of many nature programmes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#x4)
- The narrator doesn't tell us the boy's name until the end. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#x5)
- Can we trust this narrator, or is he hiding something? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#x6)
- The audiobook narrator did funny voices for each character. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#x7)

### Note

Countable: a narrator, narrators. Spelled with -or. Verb: narrate; noun: narration, narrative. The narrator is not always the author: a writer can invent a narrator who is a child, an animal or a villain.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «narrator» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«narrator» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narrator.html) on Mova free.