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fable::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | allegory, apologue, parable |
| Type of | story |
| Has types | aesop's fables |
| Derivation | fabulist, fabulous |
fable::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | legend |
| Type of | story |
| Has types | arthurian legend |
| Derivation | fabulist, fabulous |
Examples of fable
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Ali became more fable than fact down through the years, more myth, more mystery.
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Aesop was quite the fable-teller, but was he a student of bird behavior as well?
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The movie is a fable etched in comedy, sadness, and mild existential philosophy.
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The period fable Hugo marks a number of firsts in the career of Martin Scorsese.
From the independent.co.uk
His fable ends ambiguously for all parties, but with a whiff of genuine tragedy.
From the time.com
It was something out of the imagination, a baseball fable that couldn't be real.
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Harry started to fade as though we are reading the fable of a dissolving writer.
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It is a juvenile fable that science, under Vogon control, always aids humanity.
From the independent.co.uk
A mix of fable and history set in Renaissance Florence and India's Mughal Empire.
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- Fabrication: a deliberately false or improbable account
- A short moral story (often with animal characters)
- Legend: a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
- (fabled) celebrated in fable or legend; "the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox"; "legendary exploits of Jesse James"
- A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy ...
- Fable is a PC adventure game from 1996, of the point-and-click genre, developed by Plans Proposals & Projects and released by Sirtech.
- Fable is a 2000 album by Hong Kong-based C-pop singer Faye Wong.
- Fables is a comic book series created by writer Bill Willingham, published by DC Comics's Vertigo imprint beginning in 2002. ...
- "Fable" is a 1996 song recorded by the Swiss Italian musician known under the pseudonym of Robert Miles. It was the second single from his album Dreamland.
