fable
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- noun
- /ˈfeɪbəl/
- Literature
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fábula
- In the fable of the ant and the grasshopper, the ant's hard work is rewarded while the grasshopper suffers later.
- fable and cautionary tale
- moral fable
- Aesop's fables
Later I'll read a Symphony at the next and letters and fables and fairy tales.
- Later I'll read a Symphony at the next and letters and fables and fairy tales.
- It's not like the gods show up as in Greek fables in disguise and hang out with us or anything like that.
- There is this fable of a lumberjack, you know, the most famous strong, muscular lumberjack on earth.
- In some ways, the fox in Aesop's fable is smarter than most people who encounter narcissists.
- But the speech of beasts and the beast fable has developed into a separate branch, has little reference to that desire, and often wholly forgets it.
- And he brings up the legendary fable of the fox and the sour grapes.
- In the Classical Fable by Aesop, the fox sees a luscious bunch of grapes hanging high up on a vine, and he wants to eat them.
Examples
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The fable teaches us that slow and steady wins the race, as shown in the story of the tortoise and the hare.
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The contrast between the two countries recalls the old fable of the tortoise and the hare.
Academic text (1998) -
It's what you learn from a story or a fable.
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And so the moral of the fable is that persuasion is more powerful than force.
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The tortoise crosses the finish line first, once again proving the fable to be true.
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There is an apt fable from the Akan people of Ghana that illustrates my point:
Academic text (1995) -
In the Classical Fable by Aesop, the fox sees a luscious bunch of grapes hanging high up on a vine, and he wants to eat them.
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Many children learn valuable lessons from classic fables that feature talking animals as characters.
Synonyms
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A simple story that teaches a moral lesson
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A story or picture whose people and events show moral and political ideas
A short story that teaches a lesson, often using animals
A story that teaches a moral lesson
Antonyms
How Long
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Fable comes from the Latin word fabula, which meant 'story', and from the verb fari, 'to speak'. The same root appears in fabulous, which once meant 'from a story', so a fable is a short told tale that usually teaches a lesson.