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1. Fable
   Short story or piece of verse conveying a moral e.g. Aesop's fables.
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2. fable
   [n] - a short moral story (often with animal characters)
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3. 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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4. 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
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. fable
   parable noun a short moral story (often with animal characters)
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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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.
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13. fable
    
    • a deliberately false or improbable account
    • a short moral story (often with animal characters)
    • a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
    
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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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 Animal Farm (1945) by English w...
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17. fable
    Short story in Greece and other ancient cultures. Fables appeared in literature as illustrative examples and later were compiled into collections.
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18. 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 expl...
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19. Fable
    (video game) `Windows`<br />`Xbox 360`<br>December 4, 2007<br>`Mac`<br />--> --> `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, ...
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20. 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 BB...
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