A teller of tales or stories; a narrator.

The teller of a tale, the author of a story; a relater, a narrator.

A person who relates a narrative or tale; a storyteller. Obsolete.

One who fabulates or relates fables; a story-teller.

in the same sense: cf. tale-master n. at tale, n. compounds 2.

spec. The voice or persona (whether explicitly identified or merely implicit) by which are related the events in a plot, esp. that of a novel or…

figurative. One who spins, tells, or relates (a story, yarn, etc.).

Chiefly somewhat literary. A person who tells stories; the teller of a particular story; = storyteller, n. 1b storyteller, n. 1a.

Used allusively as the type of a (usually young and attractive female) teller of long or numerous stories.

One who ‘spins a yarn’; a story-teller. colloquial.