See tale in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
An untrue declaration:
canard, cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, inveracity, lie2, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, untruth. (Informal) fish story, tall tale. (Slang) whopper. See trueAn entertaining and often oral account of a real or fictitious occurrence:
anecdote, fable, story. (Informal) tall tale, yarn. See words- (Archaic)
A noting of items one by one:
count, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally. See count - (Archaic)
A number or quantity obtained as a result of addition:
aggregate, amount, sum, summation, sum total, total, totality. See count
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