Definition of "tale"
- noun
Number.
Account; estimation; regard; heed.
Speech; language.
A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
A count; declaration.
Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
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.
A type of story.
A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence game.
- verb
To speak; discourse; tell tales.
To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
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