Fable

Noun

 * 1) A fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
 * 2) Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
 * 3) * 1 Timothy 4:7,
 * Old wives' fables.
 * 1) * Alfred Tennyson,
 * We grew The fable of the city where we dwelt.
 * 1) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
 * 2) * Joseph Addison,
 * It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.

Synonyms

 * morality play
 * legend

Verb

 * 1)  To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
 * 2) * Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI, IV-ii:
 * He Fables not.
 * 1) * Matthew Prior:
 * Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.
 * 1) * Matthew Arnold:
 * He fables, yet speaks truth.
 * 1)  To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
 * 2) * John Milton:
 * The hell thou fablest.

Thesaurus
Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, action, adventure story, allegory, anagnorisis, angle, apologue, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background, bedtime story, canard, catastrophe, characterization, color, complication, concoction, continuity, contrivance, denouement, design, detective story, development, device, episode, extravaganza, fabliau, fabrication, fairy tale, falling action, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk story, folktale, forgery, gest, ghost story, gimmick, horse opera, incident, invention, legend, line, local color, love story, mood, motif, movement, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, nursery tale, parable, peripeteia, plan, plot, recognition, rising action, romance, scheme, science fiction, secondary plot, shocker, slant, space fiction, space opera, story, structure, subject, subplot, suspense story, switch, thematic development, theme, thriller, tone, topic, twist, whodunit, work of fiction

Etymology
From, from fable:, from  fabula:, from fari:. See Ban:, and compare fabulous:, fame:.

Noun

 * Arabic: أسطورة
 * Armenian:
 * Cherepon: anansesem
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: fabelo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: dæmisaga
 * Ido: fablo


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Lithuanian: pasakėčia
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: fábula
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, притча
 * Serbian: basna, skazna
 * Slovak: rozprávka
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: fabl, öykünce
 * Twi: anansesem


 * : ספור

Verb

 * Danish:
 * Finnish: (satuja)
 * German:


 * Hungarian: mesél
 * Macedonian: фабулира


 * Danish: fabulere
 * Finnish: omiaan


 * Hungarian:, kohol
 * Macedonian: измислува

Etymology
fabula:

Noun

 * , story

Etymology
fabula:

Noun

 * , story