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Noun
▲
A fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted
story
narrative
anecdote
yarn
account
legend
fable
romance
saga
short story
fiction
myth
novel
relation
report
history
narration
novelette
novella
parable
record
allegory
conte
epic
spiel
urban legend
urban myth
folk tale
chronicle
recital
register
archives
chronicles
accounts
registers
records
blog
logbook
minutes
life
muniments
publication
bio
documentation
calendar
evidence
life story
dossier
note
treatise
article
discourse
paper
daybook
vlog
weblog
yearbook
moblog
notebook
daily record
day-by-day account
review
written account
chronicon
day-to-day account
documents
papers
files
rolls
deeds
ledgers
dossiers
paperwork
profile
historical account
monograph
essay
ledger
notes
vita
recollection
memory
tractate
transactions
confessions
journals
memorials
commonplace book
adventures
letter
self-portrayal
letters
experience
reminiscences
confession
texts
research
personal history
finding
comment
discussion
publishing
disquisition
critique
tract
life history
internal life
personal life
document
file
summary
literature
observation
abstract
précis
published writing
relevant work
transcript
transcripts
transaction
almanac
instrument
deed
registry
script
data
memorandum
memo
proceedings
writing
entry
act
directory
memorial
certificate
trace
muniment
scroll
casebook
inscription
case study
case history
written material
swindle sheet
paper trail
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“Like the myth of Hercules, the legend of Samson is a tale recounted in many cultures.”
Noun
▲
A lie
fib
lie
fabrication
falsehood
untruth
story
fiction
fable
falsity
mendacity
prevarication
taradiddle
tarradiddle
whopper
yarn
fairy tale
rigmarole
spiel
alternative fact
chestnut
clothesline
defamation
detraction
exaggeration
fake news
misrepresentation
rumourUK
rumorUS
scandal
tall story
trumped-up story
untruism
fairy story
piece of fiction
shaggy-dog story
cock and bull story
cock-and-bull story
coloringUS
colouringUK
baloney
caricature
guise
semblance
front
stretch
act
disguise
charade
mask
amplification
overstatement
excess
embroidery
exaltation
boasting
aggrandizementUS
extravagance
figure of speech
enlargement
emphasis
elaboration
simulation
make-believe
slant
pose
posturing
artifice
hyperbolism
rant
misjudgement
misjudgment
cover
acting
aggrandisementUK
faking
adulteration
masquerade
perversion
pretension
posing
twisting
facade
twist
mutilation
airs
façade
put-on
show
playacting
appearance
manipulation
display
doctoring
alteration
tampering
veil
veneer
con
imitation
schtick
false light
hog
simulacrum
false pretense
not a true picture
dumb act
inveracity
quibbling
bunk
tergiversation
cavillingUK
truthlessness
patter
false excuse
pitch
one for the birds
talk
lead
cavilingUS
persuasion
shamming
dissembling
self-deception
posture
play-acting
pretentiousness
magnification
inflation
overemphasis
overestimation
prepared speech
cant
attitudinizing
bias
lying
slanting
likeness
misreporting
affectation
putting on an act
false display
impersonation
false show
face
false appearance
showing
outward appearance
profession
air
suggestion
claim
effect
false front
spin
skew
prejudice
garbling
travesty
fudging
debasement
false colors
change
tinkering
false colours
lack of veracity
tall talk
stretching
fiddling
changing
BS
misinterpretation
imbalance
purple prose
shuffling
routine
stunt
cloak
ostentation
gag
stall
trick
more ❯
“He's always ready to spin a tall tale about the one that got away.”
Noun
▲
A report or rumor (typically unsubstantiated) about someone or something
story
canard
gossip
hearsay
rumorUS
rumourUK
slander
whisper
allegation
libel
talk
tittle-tattle
buzz
word
tattle
scandal
scuttlebutt
report
bruit
news
idle talk
goss
chitchat
dish
noise
bavardage
shu-shu
grapevine
back-fence talk
dirt
rumourmongeringUK
chat
assertion
chit-chat
poop
common talk
mere talk
secondhand information
unsubstantiated information
second-hand information
aspersion
backstabbing
belittlement
idle rumor
aspersions
malicious rumour
malicious rumours
scandalmongering
muckraking
mud
backbiting
disparagement
more ❯
Noun
▲
A total number counted or recorded
count
tally
census
register
reckoning
poll
enumeration
calculation
listing
computation
fact finding
information gathering
telling
sum
tallying
counting
numbering
toll
result
outcome
totting up
record
account
score
roll
total
itemization
note
summation
tab
number
list
inventory
index
directory
sum total
roster
grand total
notch
point
addition
estimation
numbers
arithmetic
calculus
adding
estimate
figuring
math
ciphering
figures
mathematics
working
charge
settlement
due
number crunching
sums
working out
grunt
cost
bad news
weighing up
more ❯
Noun
▲
A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated
mythos
myth
mythology
folklore
lore
legend
legendry
tradition
fable
saga
custom
belief
doctrine
experience
teaching
superstition
adage
erudition
saw
saying
story
folk tale
folk story
allegory
fantasy
mythus
yarn
fiction
parable
fairy tale
folk tales
folk stories
convention
rule
fables
tales
mythicism
conviction
godlore
oral literature
traditional beliefs
heritage
ritual
rubric
institution
practice
usage
praxis
habit
prescription
norm
protocol
conventionality
observance
routine
wont
ceremony
way
principle
historical convention
birthright
customs
mores
ethics
ethic
accepted behaviour
unwritten law
established practice
tikanga
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Noun
▲
The reporting of news, especially by an eyewitness
reportage
analysis
exposure
mention
news coverage
reporting
address
announcement
article
brief
broadcast
cable
chronicle
communication
communique
coverage
declaration
description
detail
digest
dispatch
handout
history
information
message
narration
narrative
news
note
opinion
outline
paper
picture
piece
proclamation
pronouncement
recital
record
relation
release
rundown
scoop
statement
summary
telegram
tidings
version
wire
word
blow by blow
hot wire
précis
résumé
write-up
more ❯
Noun
▲
The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge
backbiting
scandalmongering
abuse
calumny
cattiness
defamation
denigration
disparagement
slander
vilification
vituperation
libel
maligning
smearing
aspersions
calumniation
detraction
gossip
insults
malice
malicious talk
muckraking
mud-slinging
revilement
slurs
spite
spitefulness
aspersion
backstabbing
badmouthing
bad-mouthing
belittlement
character assassination
depreciation
infighting
invective
lie
obloquy
rubbishing
scandal
slagging
spiteful talk
traducement
viciousness
hateful talk
slagging off
unkind remarks
misrepresentation
derogation
scurrility
libelingUS
libellingUK
traducing
hit
slam
deprecation
innuendo
insinuation
running down
diminishment
put-down
smear
injustice
injury
ridicule
minimization
hurt
damage
knock
harm
pejorative
smear campaign
wrong
disesteem
slur
slight
insult
aspersing
defaming
vilifying
blackening
untruth
smear campaigning
malicious gossip
contumely
misrepresentation of character
defamation of character
rap
dirt
false accusation
mud
false report
slime
dirty linen
black eye
scandalous remark
calumnies
defamations
denigrations
derogations
calumniations
smears
scandals
backbitings
censures
traducings
smearings
criticism
opprobrium
lies
defamings
put-downs
reproaches
rumorUS
rumourUK
backstabbings
blackenings
tittle-tattle
revilements
smear campaigns
diminishments
slights
blame
scorn
innuendoes
discredit
hits
scurrilities
false reports
imputations
stigmata
knocks
lyings
disgrace
denunciations
goss
tattle
rumormongeringUS
tales
false accusations
animadversions
belittlings
black eyes
condemnation
vitriol
dishonorUS
slaggings
castigation
upbraidings
allegations
dishonourUK
accusations
excoriations
flak
revilings
knockings
shame
talks
maliciousness
hearsay
chat
disdain
disrepute
ignominy
odium
reflection
humiliation
infamy
mudslingings
censure
lying
false insinuation
mudslinging
besmirchment
stains
blots
affronts
maledictions
dirty laundry
false light
aftertales
dumps
cheap shots
stick
tongue-lashings
fulmination
attacks
objurgations
verbals
lambastings
disfavorsUS
disfavourUK
execration
rumoursUK
talk
scuttlebutt
lowdown
news
gens
buzzes
dope
pejoratives
hurts
wrongs
rumourmongeringUK
rumorsUS
citations
charge
incriminations
ascription
complaint
stigmatizationsUS
assertions
suggestion
stigmatisationsUK
attribution
indignities
embarrassment
offencesUK
offensesUS
malicious rumours
malicious rumour
marginalizationsUS
marginalisationUK
idle rumor
backhanded compliments
ill-repute
notorieties
ill repute
chastisement
faultfinding
debasement
admonishments
remonstrance
cavilingsUS
pannings
beratings
derision
slatings
underestimation
cavils
slammings
nitpicking
mockings
contempt
reprobations
reproofs
critiques
roasts
prejudice
chidings
degradation
scoldings
recriminations
put downs
carpings
cavillingsUK
reprovals
nit-picking
lessenings
strictures
more ❯
Noun
▲
The result of adding a set of figures or counting a number of items
sum total
total
sum
aggregate
totality
whole
entirety
summation
full
amount
all
quantity
gross
mass
bulk
body
result
quantum
budget
jackpot
grand total
whole shebang
whole bit
full amount
the works
whole nine yards
flat-out
whole kit and caboodle
extent
tally
set
unit
composite
bunch
gathering
load
accretion
toll
outcome
poll
reckoning
enumeration
numbering
object
piece
package
whole thing
discrete item
batch
the full amount
full nine yards
mob
crowd
gang
pack
crew
party
whole lot
suite
amalgamation
numeration
the whole kit and caboodle
the whole enchilada
stockpile
congregation
caboodle
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Noun
▲
A kind of narrative poem, typically adapted for recitation or singing
ballad
poem
limerick
lyric
ode
rhyme
chant
ditty
lay
poesy
rune
saga
sonnet
verse
lines
narrative
poetry
rime
shanty
vocal
epic poem
piece of poetry
song
composition
jingle
epic
elegy
blank verse
free verse
villanelle
nursery rhyme
rhyming
versification
doggerel
half-rhyme
harmony
vowel-chime
alliteration
metreUK
meterUS
cadence
measure
rhythm
poems
iambic pentameter
slant rhyme
rhymes
balladry
verses
Parnassus
penillion
expressive
paean
stanza
rhythmical composition
lyrics
more ❯
Noun
▲
The storyline of a narrative work
plot
story
storyline
narrative
outline
thread
action
development
scenario
subject
theme
events
diegesis
mythos
progress
script
structure
unfolding
enactment
incidents
movement
picture
scenes
summary
synopsis
transcript
chain of events
story line
scheme
gist
more ❯
Noun
▲
A statement or account that makes something clear
explanation
clarification
description
elucidation
exposition
explication
expounding
illustration
definition
demonstration
elaboration
interpretation
report
breakdown
brief
commentary
enlightenment
illumination
narration
specification
statement
construction
delineation
detail
example
note
simplification
summary
teaching
translation
annotation
comment
display
exegesis
expression
information
resolution
version
answer
deciphering
decoding
evidence
gloss
meaning
recital
solution
story
history
rendition
sense
showing
talking
telling
writing
road map
why and wherefore
mansplaining
mansplanation
womansplaining
womansplanation
enucleation
position paper
portrayal
representation
narrative
depiction
rundown
portrait
characterization
chronicle
relation
record
recounting
picture
vignette
portraiture
rendering
summarization
declaration
sketch
recountal
presentment
writeup
evocation
recitation
confession
yarn
blow by blow
word picture
ABCs
more ❯
Verb
▲
Calculate the total number of
tally
compute
total
calculate
count
enumerate
reckon
score
mark
measure
quantify
rate
record
register
add up
catalogueUK
catalogUS
figure out
inventory
itemiseUK
itemizeUS
note
number
numerate
rack up
sum
tallyho
tell
work out
count up
tot up
mark down
write down
keep score
more ❯
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