Fable

Quick meaning: Fable is a noun meaning Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
2. The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
4. (transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
5. A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.

Example Sentences

[…]we grew / The fable of the city where we dwelt.

He Fables not, I heare the enemie: / Out ſome light Horſemen, and peruſe their Wings.

But refuſe prophane and olde wiues fables, and exerciſe thy ſelfe rather vnto godlineſſe.

[…] erre not that ſo ſhall end / The ſtrife of Glorie: which we mean to win, / Or turn this Heav’n itſelf into the Hell / Thou fableſt […]

Word Forms

• fables
• fabling
• fabled

Synonyms for fable

Depending on context, synonyms include legend, make up, invent, feign, devise, allegory.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include legend, apologue, parable, allegory, fiction, fabrication.

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