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A raconteur is someone who tells stories well — not merely true or false, but in a way that makes people lean in: timing, voices, a little humour. You meet the word about dinner guests, old actors, the person at a party who can hold the room with a tale. It is a , slightly fancy word, borrowed from French, so it sounds educated. A narrator is anyone who tells a story, even a dry one in a book; a raconteur is specifically good company. Though actually, it is a bit old-fashioned now. Younger people more often say a great . You still see raconteur in reviews and profiles.
很會說故事、說得有趣的人（偏書面、從法文來；不是傳統的「說書人」）
組成借自法文 raconteur，由 raconter（講述、把故事說出來）+ -eur（做那件事的人）組成。
同家族的字
- recountshares the old French 'tell the story' root
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
raconteurnoun/ˌɹæk.ɒnˈtɜː/
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A storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit.
- He was tempted to try the last door—to look into the room of evil fame; but he reflected that this would be indiscreet, since Colonel Capadose handled the brush—as a raconteur—with such freedom. There might be a ghost and there might not; but the Colonel himself, he inclined to think, was the most mystifying figure in the house.
- It is notoriously possible for the author of a fictitious narrative to become, after a time, unable to distinguish it from a statement of actual facts. There is a case on record in which a learned judge communicated to the Psychical Society in perfect good faith a ghost story, all the principal features of which were proved to be imaginary. They had their origin in his own talent as a distinguished raconteur.
raconteurverb/ˌɹæk.ɒnˈtɜː/
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To make witty remarks or stories.
- The two of them turn to each other and raise an eyebrow each, their signal to slip into alternating raconteuring.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。