Word of the Day:
untold
What It Means
Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.
Not numbered or counted.
Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible.
Untold in Context
“As Royal Engineers General Mungo Melvin, who has been helping with the draft, put it: "This is the last untold story of the Normandy Invasion."”
Did You Know?
From Old English unteald (“not counted or reckoned”), from tellan (“count, relate, tell”).
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