Associations to the word «Fable»

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

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

FABLE, noun. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

FABLE, noun. The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

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

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

FABLE, noun. A deliberately false or improbable account.

FABLE, noun. A short moral story (often with animal characters).

FABLE, noun. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events.