Synonyms for tale
teɪltale

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1. 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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1. tale

   Synonyms:
   story, narrative, incident, fiction, fable, romance, legend, recital, anecdote, relation

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1. 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, fib

2. fib, 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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1. • Lie

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1. talenoun

   Synonyms:
   story, fable, legend, narrative, relation, apologue, parable, novel, romance

2. talenoun

   Synonyms:
   account, count, reckoning

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1. talenoun

   Synonyms:
   story, romance, parable, apologue, legend, fable, narrative, myth, jeremiad (tale of sorrow)

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1. List of paraphrases for "tale":

   conte, story, fable, history, storytelling, fairy, legend, saga, stories

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1. Kent Ninomiya:

   He should just let it go, what’s done is done. He’s still going to be a very rich man. It’s a cautionary tale for everyone.

2. Stephen Councill:

   Lewis Carroll could not have told a more bizarre tale.

3. Michael Rippee:

   Kylee’s story is unique as a cautionary tale— as the athlete who says they’re better, but they’re not.

4. Giorgos Marietakis:

   She had drifted a long way, over 40 nautical miles south of Folegandros, she was so happy. She hugged and kissed us but, if truth be told, I dont know who was more overjoyed, us or her. We had saved a human being and she had survived to tell the tale.

5. Peter Kent:

   His ordeal is a cautionary tale to any investor who thinks the Cuban playing field is level.