Definisjon av fable

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Noun

fable - a short moral story (often with animal characters)
parable, allegory, apologue
story a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
aesop's fables a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop
fable - a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
legend
story a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
arthurian legend the legend of King Arthur and his court at Camelot
fable - a deliberately false or improbable account
fabrication, fiction
untruth, falsehood, falsity a false statement
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Substantiv

fable - A fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
fable - Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
fable - Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

Verb

fable - To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
fable - To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

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  • A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim. A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech and other powers of humankind. Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished.

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