raconteurs
Skilled narrative entertainers
Raconteurs are skilled storytellers, particularly those gifted at telling anecdotes in conversation.
The word suggests charm, wit, and timing—someone who can hold a dinner party captive with tales of adventure or misadventure: He was a natural raconteur, spinning yarns that kept everyone laughing.
The singular is raconteur.
Brief amusing accounts
- talesSpoken or written narratives
- narrativesAccounts of events
- yarnsThreads or tall tales
- storiesAccounts or building levels
wit · charm · audience · dinner party · entertainment · oral tradition · griots · embellishment
Grooming establishments
- soiréesFormal evening gatherings
- gatheringsOccasions of congregating
- conversationalistsSkilled talkers
- hostsThose who entertain guests
dinner guests · bon vivants · socialites · circles · clubs · wits · company · charisma
Writers of discursive prose
- memoiristsWriters of personal histories
- humoristsWriters of comic material
- WildeAnglo-Irish family name
- columnistsRegular opinion piece authors
Mark Twain · Wodehouse · chroniclers · authors · writers · autobiographers · diarists · correspondents
anecdotes
Brief amusing accounts
- talesSpoken or written narratives
- narrativesAccounts of events
- yarnsThreads or tall tales
stories · wit · charm · audience · dinner party · entertainment · oral tradition · griots · embellishment · timing
salons
Grooming establishments
- soiréesFormal evening gatherings
- gatheringsOccasions of congregating
- conversationalistsSkilled talkers
hosts · dinner guests · bon vivants · socialites · circles · clubs · wits · company · charisma · reputation
essayists
Writers of discursive prose
- memoiristsWriters of personal histories
- humoristsWriters of comic material
- WildeAnglo-Irish family name
Mark Twain · Wodehouse · columnists · chroniclers · authors · writers · autobiographers · diarists · correspondents · journalists
- oral traditionfolk narratives, campfire tales, epics, oral poetry, storytelling circles
- storytellersstorytellers, narrator, narrators, tale-teller, tale spinner
- cafe societysocialites, glitterati, bon vivants, jet setters, debutantes
- writersauthor, novelist, writer, poet, journalist
- humoristshumorists, wits, satirists, comics, comedians
raconteursbores
Drills or tires
mutes · wallflowers · strong silent types · clams · dullards
raconteurslisteners
Those who attend aurally
wallflowers · shrinking violets · spectators · recluses · loners