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tales

nounverbnounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //teɪlz//
  • //ˈteɪliːz//

A person available to fill vacancies in a jury.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of taleplural of tale

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of taleobsoletethird-person singular simple present indicative of tale

noun

  1. 1

    A person available to fill vacancies in a jury.

  2. 2

    A book or register of people available to fill jury vacancies.

  3. 3

    A writ to summon people to court to fill vacancies in a jury.

Etymology

From Latin plural of talis (“such (persons)”).

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of tallitAlternative form of tallit (“Jewish prayer shawl”).

Forms

plural
talesim, taleysim, talaisim, taleisim
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).