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told of

told of is the simple past and past participle of tell of.

Meaning of tell of

Verb

tell of (third-person singular simple present tells of, present participle telling of, simple past and past participle told of)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To inform (someone) about (something).
    • He tells of his adventures abroad.

Questions about told of

What is told of the simple past and past participle of?
Told of is the simple past and past participle of tell of.

Words near told of in the dictionary

  1. told fortunes
  2. told it like it is
  3. told it to the hand
  4. told its own tale
  5. told noses
  6. told of
  7. told off
  8. told on
  9. told someone where to get off
  10. told someone where to shove it
  11. told tales

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Adapted from Wiktionary: told of (page history and authors); tell of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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