Showing posts with label Raconteur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raconteur. Show all posts

Friday, April 20, 2012

A to Z Challenge: R - Raconteur

Raconteur

Happy Friday, everybody! I'm going to meet one of my online writer friends today for the first time, but I can't talk about him, because he's very secretive about his identity. Which scares me a little.

I'm mostly joking, but let's get to work, anyway.

rac·on·teur [rak-uhn-tur; Fr. ra-kawn-tœr] n. a person who is skilled in telling stories and anecdotes in a captivating way

Synonyms: anecdotist, storyteller, narrator

Etymology: 1828, from Fr. raconter "to recount," from re- (see re-) + O.Fr. aconter, from a- "to" + conter "to tell" (cf. recount).