Tale

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A recital of events or happenings; a report or revelation: told us a long tale of woe.
  • n. A malicious story, piece of gossip, or petty complaint.
  • n. A deliberate lie; a falsehood.
  • n. A narrative of real or imaginary events; a story.
  • n. Archaic A tally or reckoning; a total.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Number.
  • n. Account; estimation; regard; heed.
  • n. Speech; language.
  • n. A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
  • n. A count; declaration.
  • n. Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
  • n. A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
  • n. A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
  • n. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
  • n. a type of story.
  • n. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
  • n. The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence game
  • v. To speak; discourse; tell tales.
  • v. To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See tael.
  • n. That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
  • n. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated.
  • n. A count or declaration.
  • verb-intransitive. To tell stories.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Number.
  • n. Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
  • n. A number of things considered as an aggregate; a sum.
  • n. Account; estimation; regard; heed. See to give tale, below.
  • n. Speech; language.
  • n. A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
  • n. A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
  • n. In law, a count; a declaration.
  • n. An account of an assorted fact or circumstance; a rumor; a report; especially, an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie: as, to tell tales.
  • n. A narrative, oral or written (in prose or verse), of some real or imaginary event or group of events: a story, either true or fictitious, having for its aim to please or instruct, or to preserve move or less remote historical facts; more especially, a story displaying embellishment or invention.
  • n. to agree; concur; be in accord.
  • To speak; discourse; tell tales.
  • n. See tael.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
  • n. a trivial lie
  • Variant
    tael   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    story    narrative    legend    relation    account    fable    anecdote    memoir    incident    discourse   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    story    legend    song    dream    novel    poem    description    adventure    idea    drama