cautionary tale
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A story, originally told in folklore, to warn its audience of a certain danger.
Example Sentences
- "This tone has slowly given way to a realization that the country’s experience might be less a curiosity than a cautionary tale."
- "And Harford’s book, of course, has more than a decade of fresh cautionary tales from our troubled era of social media, big data, algorithmic mayhem, and “alternative facts” on which to draw."