Usually means: Story, often fictional, told narratively.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word tale:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. tale: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tale: Merriam-Webster
  3. tale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tale: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tale: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tale, tale: Wordnik
  8. tale: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tale: Wiktionary
  10. tale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tale: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Tale, tale: Dictionary.com
  14. tale: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tale: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tale (disambiguation), Tale, The Tale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tale: Rhymezone
  20. tale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. Tale: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. tale: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tale: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. tale: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. tale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  27. tale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. tale: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TALE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. tale: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. TALE: Acronym Finder
  3. tale: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TALE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE
  2. Tale: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tale: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tale, tale, tale: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tale: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
noun:  A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
noun:  (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
noun:  An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
noun:  (obsolete) Number; tally; quota.
noun:  (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
noun:  (obsolete) Speech; language.
noun:  (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
noun:  (law, obsolete) A count; declaration.
noun:  (rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
noun:  (rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
verb:  (dialectal or obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
verb:  (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
noun:  Alternative form of tael [Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams, and metricated in Mainland China as exactly 50 grams.]

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