the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One who relates or narrates.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One who relates, recites, or narrates; a historian. Also relator.
Word Usage
"Not he! and because, forsooth, in those strange and distant lands strange circumstances have taken place, it is insinuated that the relater is a liar: nay, that the very places themselves have no existence but in my imagination."