Synonyms for fabulist
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fab-yuh-list |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæb yə lɪst |
Définition of fabulist
Origin :- 1590s, from French fabuliste, from Latin fabula (see fable (n.)).
- noun liar
- Gay the fabulist is only interesting in a certain sense and to a small extent.
- Extract from : « Views and Reviews » by William Ernest Henley
- The fabulist is to create a laugh, but yet, under a merry guise, to convey instruction.
- Extract from : « Aesop's Fables » by Aesop
- "Ah, I see," said the fabulist with a wink aside for Jeff's benefit.
- Extract from : « Sundry Accounts » by Irvin S. Cobb
- That is the fabulist's opinion—Harriet Shelley's is not reported.
- Extract from : « In Defense of Harriet Shelley » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- We give the last-named piece as a specimen of his work as a fabulist.
- Extract from : « Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern » by Thomas Newbigging
- And how many men are women, too, on this point, as said the fabulist.
- Extract from : « Cosmopolis, Complete » by Paul Bourget
- The fox, as ever, serves the Afghan fabulist for the personification of cunning and ingenuity.
- Extract from : « The Strand Magazine » by Various
- Eratosthenes had treated the great sire of poets as a fabulist.
- Extract from : « Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 » by W. E. Gladstone
- Some of these folk-tales suggest the ingenuity of a fabulist.
- Extract from : « Solomon and Solomonic Literature » by Moncure Daniel Conway
- They asked Lucman the fabulist, "From whom did you learn manners?"
- Extract from : « Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources » by James Wood
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