tale
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tale/teɪl/
▶noun
- 1 a fictitious or true story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted.
■ a lie.
- 2 archaic a number or total.
– phrases
a tale of a tub archaic an apocryphal story.
a tale of a tub archaic an apocryphal story.
– origin OE talu ‘telling, something told’, of Gmc origin.
'tale' also found in these Oxford entries:
Bluebeard
- cautionary
- Cinderella
- conte
- fabliau
- fairy story
- fairy tale
- folk tale
- Haggadah
- interest
- modern-day
- nancy story
- old wives' tale
- Prince Charming
- ring
- romance
- romantic
- serendipity
- sesame
- talk
- tall
- tell
- three-dimensional
- traveller's tale
- twit
