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  1. Fable
    [TV series] Fable is a British television series shown in 1965 based in a parallel Britain in which the ruling class consists of black people, and white people are the social underdogs - a reversal of the actual situation at the time. The show`s original debut was postponed by the BBC, suppo...
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  2. Fable
    Short story or piece of verse conveying a moral e.g. Aesop's fables.
    Found op http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm

  3. fable
    [n] - a short moral story (often with animal characters)
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  4. fable
    Genre of story, in either verse or prose, in which animals or inanimate objects are given the mentality and speech of human beings to point out a moral. Fables are common in folklore and children's...
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  5. Fable
    a short story which is devised and written to convey a useful moral lesson. Animals are often used as characters, as in Aesop's Fables. See parable
    Found op http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/63285/nls_fw

  6. Fable
    Fa'ble (fā'b'l) noun [ French, from Latin fabula , from fari to speak, say. See Ban , and confer Fabulous , Fame .] 1. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration inte...
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  7. Fable
    Fa'ble intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fabled ; present participle & verbal noun Fabling .] To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is no...
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  8. Fable
    Fa'ble transitive verb To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely. « The hell thou fablest Milton.
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  9. fable
    parable noun a short moral story (often with animal characters)
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  10. Fable
    • (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely. • (n.) Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. • (n.) The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem. • (n.) A Fe...
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  11. fable
    narrative form, usually featuring animals that behave and speak as human beings, told in order to highlight human follies and weaknesses. A moral—or ... [16 related articles]
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  12. fable
    fable 1. A short story with a moral, especially one in which the characters are animals. 2. A story about supernatural, mythological, or legendary characters and events. 3. A false or improbable account of something. 4. Myths and legends (fables) collectively. 5. Etymology: from Old French fable, f...
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  1. Fable
    [album] Fable ({zh|寓言|yùyán}) is a 2000 album by Beijing-based C-pop singer Faye Wong. The album can be considered in three sections. The first five tracks deal with certain aspects of Buddhism, incorporating motifs from fairy tales especially Cinderella. The next three are radio-frien...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_(album)

  2. Fable
    [video game] Fable is an action role-playing video game in the Fable series. It was developed for Xbox, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms, by Big Blue Box, a satellite developer of Lionhead Studios, and was published by Microsoft. The game shipped for Xbox on 8 October 2004. An extended versio...
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  3. Fable
    A fable is a succinct fictional 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 ...
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  4. fable
    A story in which the characters are animals and not human beings. Fables are intended to convey typical human fallacies. Usually fables point to a moral, so fables belong to didactic literature.
    Found op http://www.menrath-online.de/glossaryengl.html

  5. fable
    1. a deliberately false or improbable account
    2. a short moral story (often with animal characters)
    3. a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

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  6. fable
    fable, brief allegorical narrative, in verse or prose, illustrating a moral thesis or satirizing human beings. The characters of a fable are usually animals who talk and act like people while retaining their animal traits. The oldest known fables are those in the Panchatantra, a collection of fables...
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  7. Fable
    In literature, fable is a term applied originally to every imaginative tale, but confined in modern use to short stories, either in prose or verse, in which animals and sometimes inanimate things are feigned to act and speak with human interests and passions for the purpose of inculcating a moral le...
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  8. fable
    Genre of story, in either verse or prose, in which animals or inanimate objects are given the mentality and speech of human beings to point out a moral. Fables are common in folklore and children's literature, and range from the short fables of the ancient Greek writer Aesop to the modern novel A...
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  9. fable
    Short story in Greece and other ancient cultures. Fables appeared in literature as illustrative examples and later were compiled into collections.
    Found op http://www.religionfacts.com/greco-roman/glossary.htm

  10. Fable
    [1996 video game] Fable is a PC adventure game from 1996, of the point-and-click genre, developed by Simbiosis Interactive and released by Sirtech in the United States. ==Story== ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_(1996_video_game)

  11. Fable
    [Robert Miles song] "Fable" is the title of a song by the Swiss-Italian musician Robert Miles. It was released in May 1996 as the second single from his album Dreamland. It was a hit in several countries, reaching top ten in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland and UK. Its hig...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_(Robert_Miles_song)

  12. Fable
    [video game series] Fable is a series of action role-playing video games for Xbox, Xbox 360, Windows, and Mac OS X platforms. The series is developed by Lionhead Studios and is published by Microsoft Studios. ==Setting== The Fable series takes place in the fictional nation of Albion, a state...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_(video_game_series)

  13. fable
    1) 'animal farm,' e.g. 2) 'jack and the beanstalk,' e.g. 3) 'the fox and the grapes,' e.g. 4) Aesop story 5) Aesop work 6) Aesop's opus 7) Aesop's output 8) Aesop's specialty 9) Aesopian offering 10) Aesopian tale 11) Alleg...
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