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fables

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noun

Say it like: Fab-les

The correct spelling is fables. A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.

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noun

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

verb

  1. 1.To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
  2. 2.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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