Usually means: Conveying information through words, actions.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word telling:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. telling: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. telling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. telling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. telling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. telling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Telling, telling: Wordnik
  7. telling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. telling: Wiktionary
  9. telling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. telling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. telling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. telling: Dictionary.com
  13. telling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Telling, The Telling (film), The Telling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Telling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. telling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. telling: Rhymezone
  18. Telling, telling (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. telling: Free Dictionary
  20. telling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. telling: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. 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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