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Defenition of the word tell

    • Defenition of the word tell

      • To communicate orally, using a particular language; to express in words.
      • To talk about a story giving its details; to give a detailed account of.
      • To see someone or something as different from others; to discern or comprehend.
      • To give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.
      • To give information; to let something be known.
      • state positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell you that man is a crook!"
      • mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
      • tell somebody to do something; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"
      • express an idea, etc. in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"
      • discern or comprehend; "He could tell that she was unhappy"
      • let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late"
      • reveal; "a telling sign"
      • narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child"
      • a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)
      • a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son''s head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)
      • give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"
      • give evidence; "he was telling on all his former colleague"
      • express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"
      • inform positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell you that man is a crook!"
      • mark as different
      • discern or comprehend
      • give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
      • let something be known
      • narrate or give a detailed account of
      • give evidence
      • express in words
      • inform positively and with certainty and confidence

    Synonyms for the word tell

      • acquaint with
      • advise
      • alert
      • ascertain
      • ask
      • assure
      • blab
      • caution
      • charge
      • chronicle
      • command
      • convey
      • decipher
      • declare
      • decode
      • deduce
      • demonstrate
      • differentiate
      • direct
      • discern
      • disclose
      • discover
      • discriminate
      • distinguish
      • divulge
      • enjoin
      • enlighten
      • evidence
      • expose
      • gossip
      • have an effect
      • hint
      • identify
      • impart
      • inform
      • instruct
      • judge
      • know
      • let know
      • let the cat out of the bag
      • make itself felt
      • narrate
      • notify
      • order
      • pass on
      • put in the picture
      • recite
      • recognize
      • recount
      • relate
      • report
      • request
      • reveal
      • reveal itself
      • say
      • say to
      • secern
      • secernate
      • separate
      • severalize
      • show
      • snitch
      • spill the beans
      • spin
      • state
      • take its toll
      • tattle
      • Tell
      • tell apart
      • tell on
      • uncover
      • warn
      • William Tell

    Similar words in the tell

      • brush down
      • discern
      • distinguish
      • make out
      • pick out
      • recognize
      • tell
      • tell apart
      • tell off
      • tell's
      • teller
      • teller's
      • tellered
      • tellering
      • tellers
      • telling
      • tellingly
      • tells
      • telltale
      • telltale's
      • telltales

    Hyponyms for the word tell

      • add
      • air
      • announce
      • annunciate
      • answer
      • append
      • articulate
      • bare
      • bespeak
      • betoken
      • break
      • bring out
      • call
      • command
      • compel
      • contradistinguish
      • contrast
      • crack
      • declare
      • decouple
      • demarcate
      • digress
      • direct
      • disclose
      • discover
      • discriminate
      • dissociate
      • divagate
      • divulge
      • enunciate
      • explain
      • expose
      • foretell
      • get out
      • give
      • give away
      • harbinger
      • herald
      • impart
      • indicate
      • individualise
      • individualize
      • ingeminate
      • instruct
      • introduce
      • iterate
      • know
      • know apart
      • label
      • lay out
      • leave
      • let on
      • let out
      • mention
      • misstate
      • note
      • observe
      • pass on
      • point
      • precede
      • preface
      • premise
      • present
      • propagandise
      • propagandize
      • publicise
      • publicize
      • reiterate
      • relate
      • remark
      • repeat
      • reply
      • represent
      • require
      • respond
      • restate
      • retell
      • reveal
      • rhapsodise
      • rhapsodize
      • send for
      • separate
      • severalise
      • severalize
      • sex
      • signal
      • single out
      • spill
      • stratify
      • stray
      • sum
      • sum up
      • summarise
      • summarize
      • supply
      • talk
      • unwrap
      • vocalise
      • vocalize
      • wander
      • warn
      • yarn

    Hypernyms for the word tell

      • affirm
      • archer
      • assert
      • aver
      • avow
      • bowman
      • confirm
      • express
      • give tongue to
      • guess
      • identify
      • infer
      • inform
      • place
      • reassert
      • request
      • swan
      • swear
      • utter
      • verbalise
      • verbalize
      • verify

    Idioms for the word tell

      • tell about
      • tell against
      • tell apart
      • tell between
      • tell by
      • tell from
      • tell of
      • tell on
      • tell over
      • tell to
      • tell with
      • tell smb where to get off
      • tell tales
      • tell tales out of school

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