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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.
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a story not founded on fact: This biography is largely a self-laudatory fable.
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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.
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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.
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