Definitions from Wiktionary (fable)
▸ noun: A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
▸ noun: Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
▸ noun: Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
▸ noun: The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
▸ verb: (intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
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▸ noun: A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
▸ noun: Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
▸ noun: Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
▸ noun: The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
▸ verb: (intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
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apologue,
fiction,
allegory,
legend,
parable,
fabrication,
novel,
fableist,
fairy tale,
fabula,
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