Tale

Noun

 * 1)  Number.
 * 2)  Account; estimation; regard; heed.
 * 3)  Speech; language.
 * 4)  A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
 * 5)  A count; declaration.
 * 6)  Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
 * Both number twice a day the milky dams; And once she takes the tale of all the lambs. ― Dryden.
 * 1)  A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
 * 2)  A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
 * 3) 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!
 * 1) a type of story.
 * the Canterbury Tales
 * 1) A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
 * 2) * 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century
 * They proceeded with some rigour, these Custodiars; took written inventories, clapt-on seals, exacted everywhere strict tale and measure

Verb

 * 1)  To speak; discourse; tell tales.
 * 2)  To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

Adjectives for Tale
half-told; monotonous; scandalous; sentimental; apocryphal; unbelievable; ecclesiastical; ridiculous; gloomy; foam-like; specious; supernatural; wondrous; pathetic; dismal ; legendary; instructive; untold; tedious; mournful; exquisite; beautiful; passionate; flattering; effective; grievous; enchanting; true; riotous; shameful; diverting; evil; extraordinary; soothing; idle; definite; harrowing; melancholy; heavy; romantic; childish; uneventful; successful; crowning; gruesome; desolating; horrible; blissful; sensible; tragic; blood-curdling; artless; ever-young; saddest; magical; incoherent; tempting; merry; wild; transmitted; improbable; family; baseless; unpaint-ed; tavern; taking; piteous; unvarnished; facetious; incomprehensible; intoxicating; sinister; amorous; long-winded; thrilling; melodramatic; mystic; abbreviated; touching; boastful; analogous; trifling; debonair; mingled (pi); seafaring; graphic; metrical; idle; free.

Verbs for Tale
bear—; beguile with —s; center—; close—; compose—; conceive—; concoct—; construct —; depict—; drink in—; embody in—; fol¬low up—; pervade—; plunge into—; pour out—; relate—; revive—; spin—; testify to —; treat—; unfold—; vary—; weave—; —s abound; —s drift into mind; —enhances.

Thesaurus
account, aggregate, all, amount, anecdotage, anecdote, back-fence gossip, backbiting, backstabbing, be-all and end-all, belittlement, blague, box score, calumny, canard, cast, chitchat, chronicle, cock-and-bull story, count, defamation, depreciation, difference, disparagement, entirety, enumerate, epic, epos, exaggeration, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsification, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story, gossip, gossiping, gossipmongering, gossipry, groundless rumor, half-truth, history, idle talk, legal fiction, libel, lie, little white lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, myth, narration, narrative, newsmongering, number, numerate, piece of gossip, pious fiction, prevarication, product, quantity, recital, reckoning, record, report, rumor, saga, scandal, score, scuttlebutt, slander, slight stretching, story, sum, sum total, summation, talebearing, taletelling, talk, tall story, tall tale, tally, taradiddle, tattle, tell, the bottom line, the story, the whole story, tittle-tattle, total, totality, tote, trumped-up story, untruth, white lie, whole, x number, yam, yarn

Etymology 1
From, from talu:, from  'talk' (compare Dutch taal 'language',  tale:), from *talan 'number, counting' (compare  tæl:, West Frisian/Dutch tal:, German Zahl:, Danish tal:), from  'to reckon, count' (compare Latin dolus 'guile, deceit', Ancient Greek dólos 'wile, bait', Old Armenian տող: 'row'). Related to tell, talk.

Etymology 2
From talen:, from  talian:, from, from. Cognate with zählen:,  tala:,  tala:.

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Dutch: vertelsel, verhaaltje
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: fairy tale,, ,
 * Hebrew: מעשיה (Ma'asiya)
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , fairy tale
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: прича, приповијест, приповијетка
 * Roman: priča, pripovijest, pripovijetka
 * Sicilian: passata
 * Slovak: príbeh, bájka , rozprávka
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: berättelse, historia, saga fairy tale
 * Taos: łácianą, pìwcìayána
 * Welsh: chwedl

Related terms

 * telltale
 * fairy tale, fairytale
 * tall tale
 * tell tales
 * folk tale, folktale

Anagrams

 * et al., ETLA, late, leat, tael, teal, tela

Noun
tale



Noun

 * 1) speech, talk, address, discourse

Verb

 * 1) To make a speech
 * 2) speak, talk

Etymology
From tala:

Anagrams

 * étal

Adverb

 * 1) hence

Adjective

 * 1) such

Etymology
From tālis.

Related terms

 * talaltro
 * talché
 * talmente
 * talora
 * taluno

Anagrams

 * alte, tela

Noun

 * 1) happiness

Noun

 * 1) languages

Noun

 * 1) spoken or written words, that which someone says
 * 2) language

Etymology
From *undefined:, from.

Descendants

 * Dutch:
 * Afrikaans:

Noun

 * 1) Speech, talk, address, discourse

Derived terms

 * tordentale
 * trontale

Verb

 * 1) To make a speech
 * 2) Speak, talk

Derived terms

 * baktale
 * taletrengt

Pronoun
tale


 * fiicele tale îmi spuneau despre casa voastră nouă
 * your daughters were telling me about your new house.
 * your daughters were telling me about your new house.