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• tale — n 1. story, narration, account, recital, chronicle, history; fable, myth, fairy tale; epic, saga, Archaic. gest; parable, allegory, apologue; anecdote, incident, joke; Inf. yarn, tall story, Sl. fish or war story, Sl. megillah, Inf. song and… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• tale — [tāl] n. [ME < OE talu, speech, number, akin to Ger zahl, number, Du taal, speech < IE base * del , to aim, reckon, trick > Gr dolos, L dolus, guile, artifice] 1. something told or related; relation or recital of happenings 2. a) a story …   English World dictionary

• tale — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. story, account, recital; count[ing], tally; report; fable, yarn, legend; rumor. See description, information. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A story] Syn. anecdote, fairy tale, folk tale; see story . 2. [A… …   English dictionary for students

• tale — n. 1 a narrative or story, esp. fictitious and imaginatively treated. 2 a report of an alleged fact, often malicious or in breach of confidence (all sorts of tales will get about). 3 archaic or literary a number or total (the tale is complete).… …   Useful english dictionary

• tale — 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. Origin OE talu telling, something told , of Gmc origin …   English new terms dictionary

• A Canterbury Tale — Infobox Film name = A Canterbury Tale image size = 225px caption = U.S. theatrical poster (fy|1949) director = Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger producer = Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger writer = Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger narrator = UK …   Wikipedia

• David Manning (fictitious writer) — David Manning was a fictitious film critic, created by a marketing executive working for Sony Corporation around July 2000 to give consistently good reviews for releases from Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures. Several blurbs posted under the name …   Wikipedia

• A Hungarian Fairy Tale — (original title: Hol volt, hol nem volt ) is a 1987 Hungarian film directed by Gyula Gazdag. Plot Andris is a child living in Budapest. He is conceived when his mother Maria is attracted to a mysterious stranger during a performance of The Magic… …   Wikipedia

• tall tale — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Informal. An entertaining and often oral account of a real or fictitious occurrence: anecdote, fable, story, tale. Informal: yarn. See WORDS. 2. Informal. An untrue declaration: canard, cock and bull story,… …   English dictionary for students

• story — story1 storyless, adj. /stawr ee, stohr ee/, n., pl. stories, v., storied, storying. n. 1. a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale. 2. a fictitious tale,… …   Universalium

• story — I sto•ry [[t]ˈstɔr i, ˈstoʊr i[/t]] n. pl. ries, 1) lit. a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse; tale 2) lit. a fictitious tale, shorter and less elaborate than a novel 3) lit. such narratives or tales as a branch of literature …   From formal English to slang