Definitions
To inform, distinguish, count, or order someone to do something.
Word origin
From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talō (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”).
Used in a sentence
“All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.”
“And in his lap a masse of coyne he told, And turned vpsidowne, to feede his eye A couetous desire with his huge threasury.”
“Well fare the Arabians, who so richly pay The things they traffic for with wedge of gold, Whereof a man may easily in a day Tell that which may maintain him all his life.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Say to someone”4 letters
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