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# narrator

«narrator» in Mova's school dictionary: **The person or voice who tells the story in a book, poem…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a narrator, narrators)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The person or voice who tells the story in a book, poem, film or play. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#x1)
- In our class play I was the narrator. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#x3)
- David Attenborough is the narrator of many nature programmes. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#x5)
- Can we trust this narrator, or is he hiding something? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/#x6)
- The audiobook narrator did funny voices for each character. [tree →](https://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [The narrator is who tells the story, and it can be an animal or an object as well as a person.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «narrator» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrator/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.