[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fable \fa"ble\ f=a"b'l, n. f., fr. l. fabula, fr. fari to
   speak, say. see ban, and cf. fabulous, fame.
   1. a feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a
      fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth
      or precept; an apologue. see the note under apologue.
      1913 webster

            jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster

   note: a fable may have talking animals anthropomorphically
         cast as humans representing different character types,
         sometimes illustrating some moral principle; as,
         aesop's fables.
         pjc

   2. the plot, story, or connected series of events, forming
      the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
      1913 webster

            the moral is the first business of the poet; this
            being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as
            may be most suitable to the moral.    --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of
      talk. "old wives' fables. " --1 tim. iv. 7.
      1913 webster

            we grew
            the fable of the city where we dwelt. --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   4. fiction; untruth; falsehood.
      1913 webster

            it would look like a fable to report that this
            gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret
            methods.                              --addison.
      1913 webster
see also:
ban fabulous fame apologue 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fable \fa"ble\, v. i. imp.  p. p. fabled; p. pr.  vb. n.
   fabling.
   to compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write
   or utter what is not true. "he fables not." --shak.
   1913 webster

         vain now the tales which fabling poets tell. --prior.
   1913 webster

         he fables, yet speaks truth.             --m. arnold.
   1913 webster
see also:
fabled fabling 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fable \fa"ble\, v. t.
   to feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or
   real; to tell of falsely.
   1913 webster

         the hell thou fablest.                   --milton.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

fable
     n 1: a deliberately false or improbable account syn: fabrication,
           fiction
     2: a short moral story often with animal characters syn: parable,
         allegory, apologue
     3: a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
        syn: legend
see also:
fabrication fiction parable allegory apologue legend 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

88 moby thesaurus words for "fable":
   marchen, western, western story, westerner, action,
   adventure story, allegory, anagnorisis, angle, apologue,
   architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background,
   bedtime story, canard, catastrophe, characterization, color,
   complication, concoction, continuity, contrivance, denouement,
   design, detective story, development, device, episode,
   extravaganza, fabliau, fabrication, fairy tale, falling action,
   fantasy, fiction, figment, folk story, folktale, forgery, gest,
   ghost story, gimmick, horse opera, incident, invention, legend,
   line, local color, love story, mood, motif, movement, mystery,
   mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, nursery tale, parable,
   peripeteia, plan, plot, recognition, rising action, romance,
   scheme, science fiction, secondary plot, shocker, slant,
   space fiction, space opera, story, structure, subject, subplot,
   suspense story, switch, thematic development, theme, thriller,
   tone, topic, twist, whodunit, work of fiction

[6] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

fable
   applied in the new testament to the traditions and speculations,
   "cunningly devised fables", of the jews on religious questions
   1 tim. 1:4; 4:7; 2 tim. 4:4; titus 1:14; 2 pet. 1:16. in such
   passages the word means anything false and unreal. but the word
   is used as almost equivalent to parable. thus we have 1 the
   fable of jotham, in which the trees are spoken of as choosing a
   king judg. 9:8-15; and 2 that of the cedars of lebanon and
   the thistle as jehoash's answer to amaziah 2 kings 14:9.
   

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