Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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