fable
Plural: fables
Noun
- a deliberately false or improbable account
- a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
- A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
- Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
- Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
- The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
Verb
Verb Forms: fabled, fabling, fables
- To compose or tell fictitious stories, often with a moral.
- To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
- To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
Examples
- Some players like to fable about their amazing, hypothetical seven-letter plays.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.
Synonyms
allegory, apologue, fabrication, fiction, legend, parable, devise, feign, invent, make up, morality play
Scrabble Score: 10
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