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The Meaning of fable

  • (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.
  • (n.) The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
  • (n.) Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
  • (n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
  • (v. i.) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
  • (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

Synonyms

fabrication , fiction , parable , allegory , apologue , legend

Rhymes

abel , abell , able , cable , chaebol , crable , disable , enable , frable , gable , habile , hable , intercable , kable , knable , label , laible , mabel , mable , mislabel , playbill , rabal , raible , relabel , roundtable , sable , stabile , stable , table , timetable , turntable , unable , unstable , waibel , waybill , zabel