tale
A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
Example
“the Canterbury Tales”
Other meanings
A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
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.
“Don't tell tales!”
Synonyms
- story
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "talu" (tale, series, calculation).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “tale” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.