Definitions for Fables

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Fables fa·ble

Spelling: [fey-buh l]

IPA: /ˈfeɪ bəl/

Fables is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in Fables (abefls).

Definitions for Fables

noun

1. a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue:
2. a story not founded on fact:
3. a story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents; legend:
4. legends or myths collectively:
5. an untruth; falsehood:
6. the plot of an epic, a dramatic poem, or a play.
7. idle talk:

verb (used with object)

1. to describe as if actually so; talk about as if true:

verb (used without object)

1. to tell or write fables.
2. to speak falsely; lie:

Origin of Fables

1250-1300; Middle English fable, fabel, fabul Anglo-French, Old French Latin fābula a story, tale, equivalent to fā(rī) to speak + -bula suffix of instrument

Examples for Fables

I have no faith in the old wives' fables that we are most miserable when we get what we want.

They were not designed via the epiphany of an unlettered Russian sergeant at a workbench, as fables would have it.

This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms.

A long list of favorite books includes Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of Oz, Aesop's fables, and The Odyssey.

But when the darkness closes in, we actually run to fairy tales and fables.

I told you, Brent, there was often a factual basis for fables—remember?

What is true of proverbs, is true of all fables, parables, and allegories.

The reverse of this is the case with the personages of the fables.

Out upon you, magpie; would you delude the old man with fables?

To the wise, therefore, a fact is true poetry, and the most beautiful of fables.