Word Meaning

fable definition and meaning

n. 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.
n. The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
n. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
n. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
v. i. To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
v. t. To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

Crossword clues for fable

- Aesop tale about elf and half-back
- Allegorical story
- Fredrick the First able to produce Aesop story
- Legend
- Myth
- Short moral story
- Short story conveying a moral
- Tale
- Tall story