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Fabled
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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noun
1.
a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
2.
a story not founded on fact: This biography is largely a self-laudatory fable.
3.
a story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents; legend: the fables of gods and heroes.
4.
legends or myths collectively: the heroes of Greek fable.
5.
EXPANDan untruth; falsehood: This boast of a cure is a medical fable.
verb (used without object)
8.
to tell or write fables.
9.
to speak falsely; lie: to fable about one's past.
verb (used with object)
10.
to describe as if actually so; talk about as if true: She is fabled to be the natural daughter of a king.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English fable, fabel, fabul < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin fābula a story, tale, equivalent to fā(rī) to speak + -bula suffix of instrument
1250–1300; Middle English fable, fabel, fabul < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin fābula a story, tale, equivalent to fā(rī) to speak + -bula suffix of instrument
Related forms
fa·bler, noun
out·fa·ble, verb (used with object), -bled, -bling.
un·fa·bling, adjective
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Word Origin & History
fable
c.1300, from O.Fr. fable, from L. fabula "story, play, fable," lit. "that which is told," from fari "speak, tell," from PIE base *bha- "speak" (see fame). Sense of "animal story" comes from Aesop. In modern folklore terms, defined as "a short, comic tale making a moral point
EXPANDabout human nature, usually through animal characters behaving in human ways." Most trace to Greece or India.
fabled
c.1600, unreal, invented, pp. adj. from fable (v.) to tell tales (late 14c.); see fable. Meaning celebrated in fable is from 1706.
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