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Synonyms for tale
teɪltale
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
tale
Account carries the idea of a commercial summary. A statement is definite, confined to essentials and properly to matters within the personal knowledge of the one who states them; as, an ante-mortem statement. A narrative is a somewhat extended and embellished account of events in order of time, ordinarily with a view to please or entertain. A description gives especial scope to the pictorial element. A report (Latin re, back, and porto, bring), as its etymology implies, is something brought back, as by one sent to obtain information, and may be concise and formal or highly descriptive and dramatic. Compare ALLEGORY; HISTORY; RECORD.
Synonyms:
account, description, narration, narrative, recital, record, rehearsal, relation, report, rumor, statement, story
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narrative, narration, story, talenoun
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
"his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
Synonyms:
tarradiddle, account, narrative, chronicle, storey, report, recital, story, yarn, taradiddle, news report, write up, level, floor, narration, history, fibfib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddlenoun
a trivial lie
"he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
Synonyms:
tosh, tarradiddle, account, narrative, chronicle, storey, report, boloney, tommyrot, story, bilgewater, humbug, taradiddle, bosh, news report, write up, level, drool, twaddle, baloney, floor, narration, history, fib
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#224 | report | |
#335 | history | |
#361 | account | |
#364 | level | |
#379 | description | |
#563 | story | |
#678 | stories | |
#782 | record | |
#795 | statement | |
#1533 | floor | |
#1735 | fiction | |
#3391 | relation | |
#3681 | romance | |
#4042 | legend | |
#4926 | incident | |
#6089 | tale | |
#8062 | chronicle | |
#8119 | narrative | |
#8521 | fairy | |
#9931 | yarn | |
#11507 | saga | |
#15520 | rumor | |
#17023 | storey | |
#17073 | rehearsal | |
#18050 | storytelling | |
#19485 | fable | |
#20880 | recital | |
#27597 | narration | |
#34792 | conte | |
#37819 | drool | |
#38271 | anecdote | |
#43323 | fib | |
#46106 | tosh | |
#49733 | bosh | |
#50882 | humbug | |
#74774 | baloney | |
#116761 | twaddle |
How to use tale in a sentence?
Changes in land use leave tell-tale traces in sedimentary deposits that can be measured. Measuring these traces in drill-cores allows us to reconstruct what people were doing in the landscape over long periods of time.
Someone keeps swearing to me that in Arizona it's illegal to have sex with a rodeo clown in an elevator on Tuesdays, it's a tall tale of course, but they're told as truth.
If I get smoked here I'm not gon na carry on a fairy tale.
In fact, Mr. President, Shining City on a Hill is Shining City on a Hill -- Mr. President you ought to know that this nation is more a ‘ Tale of Two Cities ’ than it is just a ‘ Shining City on a Hill, ’.
He writes this farcical tale about her falling down and getting injured while crossing Spread Creek, and describes how he couldn't leave her behind, he stated he ‘ended her life.’ He cannot admit, ‘I killed her.’.
Translations for tale
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- حكايةArabic
- chwedlWelsh
- Erzählung, Geschichte, Sage, MärchenGerman
- rakontoEsperanto
- historia, cuentoSpanish
- tarina, satuFinnish
- conteFrench
- scéalIrish
- sgeulScottish Gaelic
- מעשיהHebrew
- հեքիաթArmenian
- rakontoIdo
- sagaIcelandic
- raccontoItalian
- 説話, 物語, コントJapanese
- چیرۆکKurdish
- fabula, fabellaLatin
- stāsts, pasakaLatvian
- verhaaltje, vertelselDutch
- historieNorwegian
- opowieśćPolish
- história, conto, fábulaPortuguese
- povesteRomanian
- ска́зка, ба́сня, были́на, ба́йка, при́тча, са́га, расска́з, по́весть, исто́рия, сказа́ниеRussian
- при̏повије̄тка, при̏повије̄ст, prȋča, prȉpovijētka, при̑ча, prȉpovijēstSerbo-Croatian
- bájka, rozprávka, príbehSlovak
- përrallë, tregimAlbanian
- historia, berättelse, sagaSwedish
- کہانیUrdu
- truyệnVietnamese
- inganekwaneZulu
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