Associations to the word «Fable»
Noun
- Andersen
- Mouse
- Ancient
- Teller
- Orpheus
- Epistle
- Perry
- Sanskrit
- Absurdity
- Pliny
- Lion
- Nightingale
- Homeland
- Adolescent
- Donkey
- Obscurity
- Jove
- Crow
- Atlantis
- Metamorphosis
- Iliad
- Cinderella
- Invention
- Adolescence
- Lowell
- Exaggeration
- Illustrated
- Genre
- Talmud
- Hedgehog
- Socrates
- Pantomime
- Conceit
- Poet
- Morality
- Wolf
- Erasmus
- Jupiter
- Translation
- Horace
- Dogma
- Perseus
- Fancy
- Rhyme
- Riddle
- Enquiry
- Nursery
- Prose
- Collection
- Fiction
- Caricature
- Oriental
- Cicero
- Ebert
- Emblem
- Lesson
- Etching
- Greek
- Curate
- Treatise
- Nymph
- Chronicler
- Goose
- Odo
- Voltaire
- Prologue
- Fantasy
- Wisdom
- Parody
- Monkey
- Bough
- Dialogue
- Wonderland
- Poe
- Animal
- Une
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.
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