Story vs. Tale — What's the Difference?

An account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment

A fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted

An account of past events in someone's life or in the development of something

A number or total

The commercial prospects or circumstances of a particular company

A recital of events or happenings; a report or revelation

Variant spelling of storey

A malicious story, piece of gossip, or petty complaint.

An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events

A deliberate lie; a falsehood.

An anecdote

A narrative of real or imaginary events; a story.

A lie

(Archaic) A tally or reckoning; a total.

A usually fictional prose or verse narrative intended to interest or amuse the hearer or reader; a tale.

An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.

A short story.

A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

The plot of a narrative or dramatic work.

A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.

A news article or broadcast.

(slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.

Something viewed as or providing material for a literary or journalistic treatment

(obsolete) Number; tally; quota.

The background information regarding something

(obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.

Romantic legend or tradition

(obsolete) Speech; language.

A complete horizontal division of a building, constituting the area between two adjacent floors.

(obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.

The set of rooms on the same floor of a building.

A count; declaration.

To decorate with scenes representing historical or legendary events.

A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.

(Archaic) To tell as a story.

A report of any matter; a relation; a version.

An account of real or fictional events.

To speak; discourse; tell tales.

A lie, fiction.

To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

A soap opera.

See Tael.

(obsolete) History.

That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated.

A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.

A count or declaration.

(computing) user story

To tell stories.

To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.

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;

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.

A trivial lie;

A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.

The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance.

A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.

To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.

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;

A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;

Structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building;

A record or narrative description of past events;

A short account of the news;

A trivial lie;