tales Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
    tale; story; narration; narrative.
    • his narrative was interesting
    • Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children
  2. noun a trivial lie
    fib; tale; story; taradiddle; tarradiddle.
    • he told a fib about eating his spinach
    • how can I stop my child from telling stories?

WordNet

Ta"les noun
Etymology
L., pl. of talis such (persons).
Definitions
  1. (Law) (a) pl. Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount. Blackstone. (b) syntactically sing. The writ by which such persons are summoned.

Webster 1913