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"ref": "2021 September 16, Sarah Maria Griffin, “Neurocracy: Futuristic Murder-mystery Fiction as Told through Wikipedia”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
"text": "Omnipedia is an unreliable narrator – we are encouraged to look at the edit logs of each wiki page, to see what information is new and what has been deleted.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A narrating character or storyteller in a literary or other artistic work (such as a film, novel, play, or song) who provides conflicting, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise questionable information to the audience or reader."
],
"links": [
[
"narrating",
"narrate"
],
[
"character",
"character"
],
[
"storyteller",
"storyteller"
],
[
"literary",
"literary"
],
[
"artistic",
"artistic#Adjective"
],
[
"work",
"work#Noun"
],
[
"film",
"film#Noun"
],
[
"novel",
"novel#Noun"
],
[
"play",
"play#Noun"
],
[
"song",
"song"
],
[
"provide",
"provide"
],
[
"conflicting",
"conflicting#Adjective"
],
[
"inaccurate",
"inaccurate"
],
[
"misleading",
"misleading#Adjective"
],
[
"questionable",
"questionable"
],
[
"information",
"information"
],
[
"audience",
"audience"
],
[
"reader",
"reader"
]
],
"qualifier": "literary theory",
"raw_glosses": [
"(literary theory) A narrating character or storyteller in a literary or other artistic work (such as a film, novel, play, or song) who provides conflicting, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise questionable information to the audience or reader."
],
"wikipedia": [
"University of Chicago Press"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/(ˌ)ʌnɹɪˌlaɪəbl nəˈɹeɪtə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˌʌnɹəˌlaɪəb(ə)l ˈnɛˌɹeɪtɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ɹətɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-nəˈɹeɪtɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[-ɾɚ]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "(one pronunciation) -eɪtə(ɹ)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "anvstaheli patmičʻ",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"word": "անվստահելի պատմիչ"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"word": "etibarsız hekayəçi"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"word": "etibarsız rəvayətçi"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"word": "不可靠的敘事者"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bùkěkàodexùshìzhě",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"word": "不可靠的叙事者"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "onbetrouwbare verteller"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "onbetrouwbare vertelster"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"word": "epäluotettava kertoja"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "narrateur douteux"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "narratrice douteuse"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "narrateur incertain"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "narratrice incertaine"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "narrateur non fiable"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "narratrice non fiable"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "unzuverlässiger Erzähler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "unzuverlässige Erzählerin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anaxiópistos afigitís",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "αναξιόπιστος αφηγητής"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"word": "pengisah lancung"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "narratore inaffidabile"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "narratrice inaffidabile"
},
{
"alt": "しんらいできないかたりて",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shin rai dekinai ka tarite",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"word": "信頼できない語り手"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "mideul su eomneun hwaja",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"word": "믿을 수 없는 화자"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nesíguren raskážuvač",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "неси́гурен раска́жувач"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nesígurna raskažúvačka",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "неси́гурна раскажу́вачка"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"note": "no equivalent term in Polish",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "but see nieufny narrator"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "narrador não-confiável"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "narradora não-confiável"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nenadjóžnyj rasskázčik",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ненадёжный расска́зчик"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nenadjóžnyj rasskázčica",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ненадёжный расска́зчица"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "narrador sospechoso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "narradora sospechoso"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"word": "ผู้บรรยายเรื่องผู้ไม่น่าเชื่อถือ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader",
"word": "güvenilmez anlatıcı"
}
],
"word": "unreliable narrator"
}
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