Synonyms for fable

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fey-buh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfeɪ bəl

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Définition of fable

Origin : c.1300, "falsehood, lie, pretense," from Old French fable (12c.) "story, fable, tale; fiction, lie, falsehood," from Latin fabula "story, play, fable, narrative, account, tale," literally "that which is told," related to fari "speak, tell," from PIE root *bha- (2) "speak" (see fame (n.)). Sense of "animal story" (early 14c.) comes from Aesop. In modern folklore terms, defined as "a short, comic tale making a moral point about human nature, usually through animal characters behaving in human ways." Most trace to Greece or India.

noun fantasy, story

Example sentences :

The fable is fanciful and pleasing in itself; but will it not hereafter be believed as reality?
Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

Were not youth and age merely a fable; visions of men's fancy?
Extract from : « Casanova's Homecoming » by Arthur Schnitzler

There was silence, and before I had finished my fable the little bell rang.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

I commenced, and the sweetness of my voice in the fable of the "Two Pigeons" worked the miracle.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

Arthur was a Celt, and may have been a fabulous Celt; but he was a fable on the right side.
Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

Let us change the subject; let us have a romance or a fable or a fairy tale.
Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

The fable of the labours of Hercules is the type of all human doing and success.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

He tried to console her, bent over her, whispered to her—some say kissed her, but that's a fable.
Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens

Perhaps the fate of Niobe is no fable, but a type of the callousness of our nature.
Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

They teach us that thy power is a fable, and that thy divinity is a dream.
Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

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