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Definition of Fable

1. Noun. A deliberately false or improbable account.

2. Noun. A short moral story (often with animal characters).

3. Noun. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events.

Definition of Fable

1. n. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.

2. v. i. To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

3. v. t. To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

Definition of Fable

1. Noun. A fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables. ¹

2. Noun. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. ¹

3. Noun. Fiction; untruth; falsehood. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive archaic) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fable

1. to compose or tell fictitious tales [v -BLED, -BLING, -BLES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fable

fabber fabbers fabbest fabbier fabbing fabbo fabby fabella fabellae fabes con amasueles

fabian fabianite fabids fabiform fabism fable (current term) fabled fablelike fabler fablers

fables fabless fabliau fabliaux fabling fablings faboo fabric fabric blindness fabric mulch

Literary usage of Fable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"His attention was first called to the fable by Gellert's popular work published in 1746. Gellert's fables were closely modelled after La Fontaine's, ..."

2. Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution by Henry Llewellyn Williams, jr (1905)
"It afterwards appeared as " A fable, in the way of a song, for the rebels," over the ... Let me, as well as I am able, Present your Congress with a fable. ..."

3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"Some of the books he published were of a class which gave his enemies juster occasion for scandal than The fable of the Bees, but he was left untroubled. ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... A fable From <The Lantern-Bearers' THERE is one fable that touches very near the quick of life: the fable of the monk who passed into the woods, ..."

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