Usually means: Conveying information through words, actions.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word telling:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. telling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. telling: Merriam-Webster
  3. telling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. telling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. telling: Collins English Dictionary
  6. telling: Vocabulary.com
  7. Telling, telling: Wordnik
  8. telling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. telling: Wiktionary
  10. telling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. telling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. telling: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. telling: Dictionary.com
  14. telling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Telling, The Telling (film), The Telling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Telling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. telling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. telling: Rhymezone
  19. Telling, telling (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. telling: FreeDictionary.org
  21. telling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. telling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. telling: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telling: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telling: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See tell as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having force, or having a marked effect; weighty, effective.
adjective:  Revealing information; bearing significance.
adjective:  Serving to convince.
noun:  The act of narration.
noun:  The disclosure of information.
noun:  (archaic) Counting, numbering.
noun:  (chiefly in the negative) Ability to determine.

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