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tale Noun 1. a report, account, or story: everyone had their own tale to tell about the flood 2. a malicious piece of gossip 3. tell tales a. to tell fanciful lies b. to report malicious stories or trivial complaints, esp. to someone in authority 4. tell a tale to reveal something important 5. tell its own tale to be self-evident [Old English talu] Tale a number of things; a list or series; a tally or total. Examples: an exact tale of the dead bodies, 1722; tale of fair children, 1864; goodly tale of folios, 1826; of lambs (the total number), 1697; tale of oysters (quantity by which they are sold), 1594; of good works, 1732.
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tale noun 1. story, narrative, anecdote, account, relation, novel, legend, fiction, romance, saga, short story, yarn (informal) fable, narration, conte (French) spiel (informal) urban myth, urban legend noun 2. lie, fabrication, falsehood, fib, untruth, spiel (informal) tall story (informal) rigmarole, cock-and-bull story (informal) Translationstale n tale [teil] 1 a story He told me the tale of his travels. verhaal حِكايَه، قِصَّه приказка vyprávění beretning die Geschichte ιστορία, αφήγηση historia, relato jutt, lugu داستان tarina conte, récit סִיפּוּר कहानी priča, pripovjest történet kisah saga, frásögn storia, resoconto 話 이야기 istorija, pasakojimas, pasaka stāsts cerita verhaal fortelling, historie opowiadanie história poveste, basm история; рассказ príbeh, historka zgodba priča berättelse, historia นิทาน öykü, masal 故事 історія کہاني câu chuyện 故事 2 an untrue story; a lie He told me he had a lot of money, but that was just a tale. storie كِذْبَه измислица smyšlenka; lež skrøne das Märchen παραμύθι mentira, trola väljamõeldis شایعه satu histoire שֶׁקֶר अफवाह bajka, izmišljotina mese kebohongan lygasaga, uppspuni bugia, frottola 嘘 거짓말 pramanas izdomājums; pasakas bohong leugen skrøne; løgn bujda mentira născocire выдумки výmysel; klamstvo pravljica laž lögn[] เรื่องโกหก yalan, maval 荒誕故事;謊言 вигадка, побрехенька افسانہ chuyện bịa đặt 荒诞故事;谎言 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. I may venture to assert the same of every aspect of the story, while I confess that the particular typhoon of the tale was not a typhoon of my actual experience. And they may unfold a tale of narrow escape, of steady ill-luck, of high winds and heavy weather, of ice, of interminable calms or endless head-gales; a tale of difficulties overcome, of adversity defied by a small knot of men upon the great loneliness of the sea; a tale of resource, of courage - of helplessness, perhaps. |
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