Definition of Tale

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Definition of Tale

Tale

See Tael.

That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated.

A count or declaration.

To tell stories.

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Tale Quotations

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David Thoreau

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.
Mike Myers

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de Montaigne

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
Paris Hilton

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Ralph Ellison

Tale Translations

tale in Afrikaans is storie, verhaal
tale in Dutch is vertelsel, verhaal, relaas, vertelling
tale in German is Fabel, Geschichte
tale in Hungarian is mese
tale in Italian is racconto, storia, fiaba
tale in Latin is fabula
tale in Spanish is conseja, cuento

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