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. Chinese Proverb:

   The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.

2. William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth):

   Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing."

3. Pablo Larrain:

   When someone decides not to be the queen, and says, I'd rather go and be myself, it's a big big decision, a fairy tale upside down, how and why do you decide to do that? It's a great universal story that can reach millions and millions of people, and that's what we want to do. We want to make a movie that goes wide, connects with a worldwide audience that is interested in such a fascinating life.

4. Talia Pan:

   Because of (a) drinking water shortage in the southwestern coastal area in the 1960s, (residents) had to drill deep wells to get drinking water. Because of arsenic in the water, there were cases of Blackfoot disease ... (which if) severe, the only option to save a life is to amputate both legs, because of this, a lot of women lost the opportunity to walk into marriage, walk into a new life chapter on high-heeled shoes ... Because of that history, we hope to create a place in Chiayi County, where people can get married, invoking the fairy tale of Cinderella.

5. Gene Norman:

   The tell-tale signature of this kind of flooding is that the storms formed and moved repeatedly over the same areas, basically, raining faster than it can drain.