ALL meanings of fables
fa·ble
F f - noun fables a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables. 1
- noun fables a story not founded on fact: This biography is largely a self-laudatory fable. 1
- noun fables a story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents; legend: the fables of gods and heroes. 1
- noun fables legends or myths collectively: the heroes of Greek fable. 1
- noun fables an untruth; falsehood: This boast of a cure is a medical fable. 1
- noun fables the plot of an epic, a dramatic poem, or a play. 1
- noun fables idle talk: old wives' fables. 1
- verb without object fables to tell or write fables. 1
- verb without object fables to speak falsely; lie: to fable about one's past. 1
- verb with object fables to describe as if actually so; talk about as if true: She is fabled to be the natural daughter of a king. 1
- noun fables Plural form of fable. 1
- noun fables plural of fable. 0