fable

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

fables

1.
A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
Đồng nghĩa: morality play
2.
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
Đồng nghĩa: legend
3.
Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
4.
The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

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verb

V_es/s

fables

V_ing/Gerund

fabling

V_ed/pp

fabled

1.
(archaic, intransitive)To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
1852, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Act II, in Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 50, He fables, yet speaks truth.
2.
(archaic, transitive)To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
Đồng nghĩa: make up, invent, feign, devise

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Đồng nghĩa

morality playlegendmake upinvent feign devise

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English -, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (to speak, say) + -bula (instrumental suffix). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. fabula.