Definitions for tale

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tale tale

Spelling: [teyl]

IPA: /teɪl/

Tale is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in tale (aelt).

Definitions for tale

noun

1. a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story:
2. a literary composition having the form of such a narrative.
3. a falsehood; lie.
4. a rumor or piece of gossip, often malicious or untrue.
5. the full number or amount.
6. Archaic. enumeration; count.
7. Obsolete. talk; discourse.

Origin of tale

before 900; Middle English; Old English talu series, list, narrative, story; cognate with Dutch taal speech, language, German Zahl number, Old Norse tala number, speech. See Examples for tale

Better live, to write your own tale than be the abject one to another.

The basic plot of The Virgin Spring, which was lifted off a Medieval tale, became the framework for The Last House on the Left.

At its core, the tale revealed by the leak of what may be more than a million classified documents is a complicated one.

Worst of all, almost, Mrs. Baker told the tale of my misdeeds to John.

Urban America is often portrayed as a tale of two kinds of places, those that “have it” and those who do not.

His great failing was that he exaggerated--no tale ever losing anything in his charge.

To the end of the lives of the spectators, it was a tale of wonder.

The result is a Shakespeare-imbued tale of the 20th century.

It was always easy to get them to believe any tale which had gold in it.

Much of the fun of The Churchill Factor comes from the delightful and evervescent way Johnson tells the tale.