Synonyms for fables
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fey-buh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfeɪ bəl |
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Définition of fables
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
- I have no faith in the old wives' fables that we are most miserable when we get what we want.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What is true of proverbs, is true of all fables, parables, and allegories.
- Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To the wise, therefore, a fact is true poetry, and the most beautiful of fables.
- Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I told you, Brent, there was often a factual basis for fables—remember?
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
- The reverse of this is the case with the personages of the Fables.
- Extract from : « Views and Reviews » by William Ernest Henley
- Out upon you, magpie; would you delude the old man with fables?
- Extract from : « The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor » by Stephen Cullen Carpenter
- There is a wonderful collection of fables, and a most complete library of ana.
- Extract from : « The Book-Hunter in London » by William Roberts
- She suggested some little piece of verse—some fable if there were fables in English.
- Extract from : « The Tragic Muse » by Henry James
- Present the fables in the order in which they are given above.
- Extract from : « The Measurement of Intelligence » by Lewis Madison Terman
Antonyms for fables
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