Associations to the word «Fables»
Noun
- Fontaine
- Parable
- Allegory
- Proverb
- Gods
- Ovid
- Tortoise
- Moral
- Tale
- Chaucer
- Grasshopper
- Folklore
- Anecdote
- Epic
- Brewer
- Myth
- Satire
- Stork
- Grimm
- Hare
- Herodotus
- Dryden
- Psyche
- Conte
- Superstition
- Mythology
- Chivalry
- Bee
- Faulkner
- Gypsy
- Preface
- Plato
- Allusion
- Narrative
- Storytelling
- Legend
- Cock
- Idiom
- Antiquity
- Lore
- Verse
- Maxim
- Labyrinth
- Fairy
- Novella
- Prometheus
- Ant
- Adversary
- Hero
- Romance
- Virgil
- Telling
- Frog
- Hercules
- Phrase
- Nag
- Ass
- Fox
- Metaphor
- Poem
- Dictionary
- Cupid
- Florian
- Story
- Ode
- Beast
- Aristotle
- Cato
- Falsehood
- Personage
Adjective
Wiktionary
FABLE, noun. A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
FABLE, noun. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
FABLE, noun. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
FABLE, noun. The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
FABLE, verb. (intransitive) (archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
FABLE, verb. (transitive) (archaic) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
Dictionary definition
FABLE, noun. A deliberately false or improbable account.
FABLE, noun. A short moral story (often with animal characters).
FABLE, noun. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.