tale

Meaning of tale

noun
  1. 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!
  2. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
    the Canterbury Tales
  3. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
  4. The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
  5. Number; tally; quota.
  6. Account; estimation; regard; heed.
  7. Speech; language.
  8. A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
  9. A count; declaration.
  10. A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
  11. A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
verb
  1. To speak; discourse; tell tales.
  2. To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
noun
  1. Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams.
  2. Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver.
  3. Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms

Information about tale

Hyphenation of tale

tale

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • tale is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

tale synonyms

Meaning narrative:

narrative, narration, story

Meaning fib:

fib, story, tarradiddle, taradiddle

Anagrams of tale

atle, Elat, Elta, laet, late, leat, Leta, tael, teal, tela

Words that rhyme with tale

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