Told

Word TOLD
Character 4
Hyphenation told
Pronunciations /tɔʊld/

Definitions and meanings of "Told"

What do we mean by told?

Preterit and past participle of tell. noun

Imp. & p. p. of tell.

Simple past tense and past participle of tell. verb

(archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.

To narrate.

To convey by speech; to say.

To instruct or inform.

To order; to direct, to say to someone.

To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

To reveal.

To be revealed.

To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.

To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.

To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.

(authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show

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The word "told" in example sentences

She needed but to be told a good thing -- I do not say _told that a thing was good_ -- and at once she received it -- that is, obeyed it, the _only_ way of receiving a truth. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

I have been told that, in Wales, Mr. Mathews never _told his story_ in the presence of Mr. Knight, who had never there insinuated any thing to my disadvantage. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)

"We have been told," she began, loftily, "we have been _told_, Cap'n ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

"I told you long ago that the new Cantos [72] were _not_ good, and I also _told you a reason_. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)

The back of the label told a more thrilling and slightly sordid tale of the origins of Blenheim Palace Water. ❋ Marshall Heyman (2011)

I think that's it, because I sing "All that Jasmine" to remember her name told me that she's sick of being stuck on the second floor of the compound. ❋ Guy Nicolucci (2011)

Her expression told him that he looked as bad as he felt. ❋ Adrian Phoenix (2011)

Forcing a smile despite the pain, when his expression told her how uncomfortable he was. ❋ Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010)

The king did not challenge this declaration of devotion, but his expression told More that His Majesty was not quite convinced. ❋ Elizabeth Massie (2010)

Sarah pressed a hand to the small of her back as she crossed the kitchen, but something in her expression told Bonnie that more than the twins weighed her down. ❋ Jennifer Chiaverini (2010)

Apparently his expression told the story for him, for her eyes flashed with anger. ❋ Karen Hawkins (2010)

One of the M.B.A. students who was deployed to Iraq in the middle of his term told me he carried the list in the cargo pockets of his pants. ❋ Diana Middleton (2010)

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