transcription, транскрипция: [ teɪl ]
( tales)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A tale is a story, often involving magic or exciting events.
...a collection of stories, poems and folk tales...
N-COUNT ; N-IN-NAMES
2.
You can refer to an interesting, exciting, or dramatic account of a real event as a tale .
The media have been filled with tales of horror and loss resulting from Monday’s earthquake.
= story
N-COUNT : usu with supp , oft N of n
3.
see also fairy tale , old wives’ tale , tall tale
4.
If you survive a dangerous or frightening experience and so are able to tell people about it afterwards, you can say that you lived to tell the tale .
You lived to tell the tale this time but who knows how far you can push your luck.
PHRASE : V inflects
5.
If someone tells tales about you, they tell other people things about you which are untrue or which you wanted to be kept secret.
I hesitated, not wanting to tell tales about my colleague.
PHRASE : V inflects
see also tell-tale