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Anecdotist

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One who tells, collects, or publishes anecdotes.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. One who relates anecdotes.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who relates or collects anecdotes.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who tells or is in the habit of telling anecdotes.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a person skilled in telling anecdotes

Word Usage

"This Denbigh ancestry recalls a pleasant example of Fielding's wit, preserved in a story told by his son, and recorded in the pages of that voluminous eighteenth-century anecdotist, John Nichols."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

story-teller narrator teller

Hyponym

munchhausen Baron Munchausen karl friedrich hieronymus von munchhausen munchausen