Definition of Fable

1. Noun. A deliberately false or improbable account.

Exact synonyms: Fabrication, Fiction
Generic synonyms: Falsehood, Falsity, Untruth
Specialized synonyms: Canard
Derivative terms: Fabulist, Fabulous, Fabricate, Fictional, Fictionalize, Fictitious

2. Noun. A short moral story (often with animal characters).
Exact synonyms: Allegory, Apologue, Parable
Generic synonyms: Story
Specialized synonyms: Aesop's Fables
Specialized synonyms: Pilgrim's Progress
Derivative terms: Allegorical, Allegorise, Allegorise, Allegorize, Allegorize, Fabulist, Fabulous, Parabolic, Parabolical

3. Noun. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events.
Exact synonyms: Legend
Examples of category: Grail, Holy Grail, Sangraal, King Arthur's Round Table, Round Table, Hagiology, Midas, Sisyphus, Tristan, Tristram, Iseult, Isolde
Generic synonyms: Story
Specialized synonyms: Arthurian Legend
Derivative terms: Fabulist, Fabulous, Legendary

Definition of Fable

1. n. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.

2. v. i. To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

3. v. t. To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

Definition of Fable

1. to compose or tell fictitious tales [v -BLED, -BLING, -BLES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fable

fabaceous
fabavirus
fabber
fabbest
fabella
Faber's anaemia
Faber's syndrome
Faberge
fabian
Fabian
Fabiana
Fabiana imbricata
Fabianism
Fabian Society
fabism
fable (current term)
fabled
fabler
fablers
fables
fabliau
fabliaux
fabling
fablings
fabric
fabricant
fabricants
fabricate
fabricated
fabricates

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