different between utterance vs narrator

English

Alternative forms

• utteraunce

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t???ns/
• Hyphenation: ut?ter?ance

Etymology 1

From utter +? -ance.

Noun

utterance (countable and uncountable, plural utterances)

1. An act of uttering.
   • July 1857, Thomas Hill, "The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review

     Mathematics and Poetry are [...] the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.

2. Something spoken.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237a.

     To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.

3. The ability to speak.
4. A manner of speaking.
5. (obsolete) A sale made by offering to the public.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) An act of putting in circulation.

Related terms

• utter
• utterable
• utterer

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French oultrance.

Noun

utterance (plural utterances)

1. (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).

References

Further reading

• utterance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• utterance at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• cruentate

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n???e?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?næ?e?t??/

Noun

narrator (plural narrators)

1. One who narrates or tells stories.
2. (narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.
3. (film and television) The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.

Synonyms

• storyteller

Related terms

• narrate
• narration
• narrative
• unreliable narrator

Translations

Latin

Verb

n?rr?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of n?rr?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of n?rr?

References

• narrator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• narrator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• narrator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Polish

Etymology

From Latin n?rr?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?rra.t?r/

Noun

narrator m pers (feminine narratorka)

1. (narratology) narrator (in story)
2. narrator (one who narrates or tells stories)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) narratorski

Related terms

• (nouns) narracja, narracyjno??, narratologia
• (adjectives) narracyjny, narratywny
• (adverb) narracyjnie

Further reading

• narrator in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• narrator in Polish dictionaries at PWN