Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being told; worth telling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being told.

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  • adjective That may be told

Etymologies

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tell +‎ -able

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Examples

  • I go to marx with my friends from school, entirely unrelated except for the fact that theyve been privy to the tellable aspects of my life, and there, i dance with earl and i watch the magician change quarters into dimes, and the cousin still stares at my boobs and earl still tells me that i feel good, and the owner still kisses me on both cheeks after he sees his cousin do it.

    i-claudius Diary Entry i-claudius 2005

  • This little man who started the whole thing passes out of the story, and after a time he passed altogether out of the world of things, visible and tellable.

    The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

  • This not only reduces the story to tellable form, but it also leaves a suggestive interest which heightens later enjoyment of the original.

    How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Sara Cone Bryant

  • For the benefit of suggestion to teachers in schools where story-telling is newly or not yet introduced in systematic form, I am glad to append the following list of additional stories which will be found to be equally tellable and likeable.

    Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling Sara Cone Bryant

  • The story is tellable in a few words, and may be introduced by this drawing of "The White Farm," so christened because of the whiteness of the walls of its house; although, as will be noticed, there was little of this or anything else left upstanding when I drew my sketch.

    A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire Harold Harvey

  • For the benefit of suggestion to teachers in schools where story-telling is newly or not yet introduced in systematic form, I am glad to append the following list of stories which have been found, on several years 'trial, to be especially tellable and likable, in certain grades of the Providence schools, in Rhode Island.

    Stories to Tell to Children Sara Cone Bryant

  • Then we sat down, and a man with a hurt heart told me about his hurt, and what an effort he was making to get through the world as the woman he loved would have had him; and before I knew what I was doing, Linda, I told him the tellable part of my own hurts.

    Her father`s daughter 1921

  • He was rather interesting too, in a way, since he had experienced many adventures in the course of his wanderings in remote parts of the country, which adventures were rather tellable.

    Civilization Tales of the Orient Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917

  • This not only reduces the story to tellable form, but it also leaves a suggestive interest which heightens later enjoyment of the original.

    How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell 1915

  • They were, he fancied, not very tellable memories, being compounded not so much of word and deed as of those more subtle things without voice or being which are no less terribly, evilly, real and whose mark remains longest upon the soul.

    The Window-Gazer Isabel Ecclestone Mackay 1901

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