Definitions for fable

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fable fa·ble

Spelling: [fey-buh l]

IPA: /ˈfeɪ bəl/

Fable is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in fable (abefl).

Definitions for fable

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 fable

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 fable

The fable of the labours of Hercules is the type of all human doing and success.

The fable is fanciful and pleasing in itself; but will it not hereafter be believed as reality?

I commenced, and the sweetness of my voice in the fable of the "Two Pigeons" worked the miracle.

The fable tells us that if policymakers foster competition and cut taxes, the rest will pretty much work itself out.

Or let the ultimate tortois-and-hare campaign end just like the fable.

There was silence, and before I had finished my fable the little bell rang.

It is a fable about an elderly woman, “Grandy,” who has suffered an unnamed loss.

Were not youth and age merely a fable; visions of men's fancy?

Arthur was a Celt, and may have been a fabulous Celt; but he was a fable on the right side.

Let us change the subject; let us have a romance or a fable or a fairy tale.