fabled
Use Fabled in a sentence
bəld adjective
1.
celebrated in fables: a fabled goddess of the wood.
2.
having no real existence; fictitious: a fabled chest of gold.
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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.
an 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), out·fa·bled, out·fa·bling.
un·fa·bling, adjective
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World English Dictionary
fable (ˈfeɪbəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a short moral story, esp one with animals as characters |
| 2. | a false, fictitious, or improbable account; fiction or lie |
| 3. | a story or legend about supernatural or mythical characters or events |
| 4. | legends or myths collectivelyRelated: fabulous |
| 5. | archaic the plot of a play or of an epic or dramatic poem |
| —vb | |
| 6. | to relate or tell (fables) |
| 7. | (intr) to speak untruthfully; tell lies |
| 8. | (tr) to talk about or describe in the manner of a fable: ghosts are fabled to appear at midnight |
| Related: fabulous | |
| [C13: from Latin fābula story, narrative, from fārī to speak, say] | |
| 'fabler | |
| —n | |
| fabled (ˈfeɪbəld) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | made famous in fable |
| 2. | fictitious |
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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
about 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Fable definition
applied in the New Testament to the traditions and speculations, "cunningly devised fables", of the Jews on religious questions (1 Tim. 1:4; 4:7; 2 Tim. 4:4; Titus 1:14; 2 Pet. 1:16). In such passages the word means anything false and unreal. But the word is used as almost equivalent to parable. Thus we have (1) the fable of Jotham, in which the trees are spoken of as choosing a king (Judg. 9:8-15); and (2) that of the cedars of Lebanon and the thistle as Jehoash's answer to Amaziah (2 Kings 14:9).
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Example sentences
Short, powerful legs propel his trademark lethal lunge and fabled leaps.
These discoveries and others give a sense of how grand the area around the fabled lighthouse must have been.
Goddesses are fabled to have contended for it, dragons were set to watch it, and heroes were employed to pluck it.
With her fabled beauty and her film career behind her, she could at last turn her attention to humanitarian and creative ventures.
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