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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)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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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
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1. (noun) fable
a story about animals that ends with a lesson
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Webster Dictionary |
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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
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Sense: a story (usually about animals) that teaches a lesson about human behaviour
Aesop's fables.
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 Afrikaans: fabel, sprokie |
 Arabic: حِكايَه |
 Bulgarian: басня |
 Brazilian: fábula |
 Czech: bajka |
 German: die Fabel |
 Danish: fabel |
 Greek: μύθος |
 Spanish: fábula |
 Estonian: valm |
 Farsi: حکایت اخلاقی |
 Finnish: faabeli |
 French: fable |
 Hebrew: מָשָל |
 Hindi: कहानी |
 Croatian: prica, basna |
 Hungarian: (állat)mese |
 Indonesian: fabel |
 Icelandic: dæmisaga |
 Italian: favola |
 Japanese: 寓話 |
 Korean: 우화 |
 Lithuanian: pasakėčia |
 Latvian: fabula |
 Malay: cerita teladan |
 Dutch: fabel |
 Norwegian: fabel |
 Polish: bajka |
 Persian: حکایت اخلاقی |
 Pashto: هغه كيسه چه رښتيا نه وى خ |
 Portuguese: fábula |
 Romanian: fabulă |
 Russian: басня |
 Slovak: bájka |
 Slovenian: basen |
 Serbian: basna |
 Swedish: fabel |
 Thai: นิทานสอนใจ |
 Turkish: fabl, alegoriköykü |
 Taiwanese: 寓言 |
 Ukrainian: байка, казка |
 Urdu: حیوانی کرداروں پر مبنی سب |
 Vietnamese: truyện ngụ ngôn |
 Chinese: 寓言 |
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