storier

English

Etymology

From Middle English storier; equivalent to story +‎ -er.

Noun

storier (plural storiers)

(obsolete) A teller of stories; a historian.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Peacock to this entry?)
- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield)
  Long through the night the sounds of music and the shouts of laughter were heard on the banks of that starry river; long through the night you might have listened with enchantment to the wild tales of the storier […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for storier in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Terrios, rioters, roister

Middle English

Alternative forms

storyer

Etymology

Either from storie +‎ -er or a shortening of historier.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈstɔriːər/, /ˈstɔriər/

Noun

storier (plural storiers)

(rare, Late Middle English) historian, storyteller

References

“stōrī̆er, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-05.

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