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 Definitions of Fable  [ˈfeɪ bəl]  

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Definition of 'Fable' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) fable
a short tale used to teach a moral, often with animals as characters.

2.  fable
a story not founded on fact.

3.  fable
a legend or myth.

4.  fable
lie; falsehood.

5. (v.i.) fable
Archaic.to tell or write fables.

6. (v.t.) fable
to describe as if true.

Etymology:  (1250–1300; ME < AF, OF < L fābula a story, tale =fā(ri) to speak +-bula suffix of instrument)

Definition of 'Fable' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) fabrication, fiction, fable
a deliberately false or improbable account

2. (noun) fable, parable, allegory, apologue
a short moral story (often with animal characters)

3. (noun) legend, fable
a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events


Definition of 'Fable' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) fable
a story about animals that ends with a lesson


Definition of 'Fable' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Fable
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. (noun) Fable
the plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem

3. (noun) Fable
any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk

4. (noun) Fable
fiction; untruth; falsehood

5. (verb) Fable
to compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true

6. (verb) Fable
to feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely


Translation of 'Fable' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a story (usually about animals) that teaches a lesson about human behaviour
Aesop's fables.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: fabel, sprokie Arabic flag Arabic: حِكايَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: басня
Brazilian flag Brazilian: fábula Czech flag Czech: bajka German flag German: die Fabel
Danish flag Danish: fabel Greek flag Greek: μύθος Spanish flag Spanish: fábula
Estonian flag Estonian: valm Farsi flag Farsi: حکایت اخلاقی Finnish flag Finnish: faabeli
French flag French: fable Hebrew flag Hebrew: מָשָל Hindi flag Hindi: कहानी
Croatian flag Croatian: prica, basna Hungarian flag Hungarian: (állat)mese Indonesian flag Indonesian: fabel
Icelandic flag Icelandic: dæmisaga Italian flag Italian: favola Japanese flag Japanese: 寓話
Korean flag Korean: 우화 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: pasakėčia Latvian flag Latvian: fabula
Malay flag Malay: cerita teladan Dutch flag Dutch: fabel Norwegian flag Norwegian: fabel
Polish flag Polish: bajka Persian flag Persian: حکایت اخلاقی Pashto flag Pashto: هغه كيسه چه رښتيا نه وى خ
Portuguese flag Portuguese: fábula Romanian flag Romanian: fabulă Russian flag Russian: басня
Slovak flag Slovak: bájka Slovenian flag Slovenian: basen Serbian flag Serbian: basna
Swedish flag Swedish: fabel Thai flag Thai: นิทานสอนใจ Turkish flag Turkish: fabl, alegoriköykü
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 寓言 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: байка, казка Urdu flag Urdu: حیوانی کرداروں پر مبنی سب
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: truyện ngụ ngôn Chinese flag Chinese: 寓言

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