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told

/tɔʊld/
Meanings
  • Verb

    1. To communicate information or news to someone.

    - "I told him the good news."
    - "She told me a secret."
    - "The teacher told the class about the upcoming test."
  • Verb

    2. To narrate a story or relate an experience.

    - "He told an interesting story."
    - "She told me about her travels."
    - "The children told fairy tales around the campfire."
Pronunciation
  1. /toʊld/



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Antonyms

ask
Synonyms

count , number , grass up , snitch , tattle , narrate , recount , relate , disclose , make known , advise , apprise
Rhymes
Words rhyming with told
dole , gole , hole , mole , toe , tole
Homonyms
Words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins

  1. told (en) : 1. To communicate information or news to someone.

  2. told (en) : 2. Past tense and past participle of the verb 'tell'.

  3. told (no) : Tall, high, lofty.

Homophones
Words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling,

  1. tawed

  2. towed

  3. toad

  4. tode

  5. toll

  6. taw

Variants
List of all variants of told that leads to same result
tell , told , telling , tells , all told , twice-told , do as one is told , I told you (so) , i told you , i told you so , truth be told , tell off , telling off , tells off , told off , tell against , telling against , tells against , told against , tell apart , telling apart , tells apart , told apart
Forms
Different forms of the word (e.g., verb conjugations, plural forms, comparative/superlative forms for adjectives).

told, tolds, tolde, toldst, toldsth, toldsth, toldsth, toldsth

Etymology
origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

Old English telian, from tealan, to show, reveal, tell; akin to teah, teon to teach.

Trivia
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  1. The word 'told' appears 17 times in the King James Version of the Bible.

  2. In chess, a 'told' move is a move that repeats a previous move, usually made as a stalemate tactic.

  3. In the game of Scrabble, the longest word that can be made using the letters in the word 'told' is 'dolted' (10 letters).

Related Concepts
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  1. narrative: The art of conveying a story or information to an audience through spoken or written word.

  2. storytelling: The act of sharing stories, either orally or in writing, for entertainment, education, or cultural preservation.

Culture
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In literature, 'told' has been used extensively in storytelling. For instance, in 'The Canterbury Tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer, each pilgrim tells a story, and the frame narrative is the tale of the narrator, the Host, who 'tells' the stories to the other pilgrims.

How to Memorize "told"

  1. visualize

    - Imagine a person communicating information to another person.
    - Visualize the act of narrating a story.

  2. associate

    - Associate the word 'told' with the idea of sharing information.
    - Link the word to the act of storytelling.

  3. mnemonics

    - Create a sentence using the word 'told' and remember its meaning.
    - Use the acronym TOLD to remember the meanings: To, Open, Listen, Deliver.

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