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Word entry · 4 letters

tale

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"Story"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈteːl/Part of speech nounSorted aeltStarts with TEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Story, account, or sometimes an untrue excuse.

Word origin

From Middle English tale, from Old English talu (“tale, series, calculation”), from Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”).

Used in a sentence

  • the Canterbury Tales
  • And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
  • But can you guess what there was in the box? Why, it was a calf's tail, and if the calf's tail had been longer this tale would have been longer too.

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