English-French translations for tale

• histoire
  Il s'agit de la sombre histoire d'une forfaiture de la Commission. It is a sorry tale of Commission misdemeanour.
  Ces histoires affligeantes ne doivent plus être tolérées. It is a sorry tale and can no longer be tolerated.
• affabulation
• baratin
• conte
  Tel est le conte de fées, mais la réalité est un peu différente. This is the fairy tale; the reality is somewhat different.
• récit
• relation

Definition of tale

• 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
• A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story
• A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration
• The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim
• Account; estimation; regard; heed
• A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse
• A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum
• To speak; discourse; tell tales

Examples

• Dont tell tales!
• the Canterbury Tales

Related words

• stalemate
• talent
• talented
• untalented
• fairytale
• tales
• catalepsy
• cataleptic
• stale