About The Word Fable
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Fable Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Fable?
[n] a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
[n] a short moral story (often with animal characters) [n] a deliberately false or improbable account Synonyms | Synonyms for Fable: allegory | apologue | fabrication | fiction | legend | parable Related Terms | Find terms related to Fable: action | adventure story | allegory | anagnorisis | angle | apologue | architectonics | architecture | argument | atmosphere | background | bedtime story | canard | catastrophe | characterization | color | complication | concoction | continuity | contrivance | denouement | design | detective story | development | device | episode | extravaganza | fabliau | fabrication | fairy tale | falling action | fantasy | fiction | figment | folk story | folktale | forgery | gest | ghost story | gimmick | horse opera | incident | invention | legend | line | local color | love story | Marchen | mood | motif | movement | mystery | mystery story | myth | mythology | mythos | nursery tale | parable | peripeteia | plan | plot | recognition | rising action | romance | scheme | science fiction | secondary plot | shocker | slant | space fiction | space opera | story | structure | subject | subplot | suspense story | switch | thematic development | theme | thriller | tone | topic | twist | Western | Western story | Westerner | whodunit | work of fiction See Also | Aesop's fables | Arthurian legend | canard | false statement | falsehood | falsity | story | untruth Fable In Webster's Dictionary \Fa"ble\ (f[=a]"b'l), n. [F., fr. L. fabula, fr. fari to
speak, say. See {Ban}, and cf. {Fabulous}, {Fame}.]
1. 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}.
Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant.
--Addison.
2. The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming
the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
The moral is the first business of the poet; this
being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as
may be most suitable to the moral. --Dryden.
3. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of
talk. ``Old wives' fables. '' --1 Tim. iv. 7.
We grew The fable of the city where we dwelt.
--Tennyson.
4. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
It would look like a fable to report that this
gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret
methods. --Addison.
\Fa"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fabled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fabling}.] To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true. ``He Fables not.'' --Shak. Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell. --Prior. He fables, yet speaks truth. --M. Arnold. \Fa"ble\, v. t. To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely. The hell thou fablest. --Milton. |
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