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fable
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural fables
plural fables
Learner's definition of FABLE
1
[count] : a short story that usually is about animals and that is intended to teach a lesson寓言
- Aesop's fables伊索寓言
- a fable about busy ants一则关于勤劳的蚂蚁的寓言
2
: a story or statement that is not true虚构的故事；谎言
[count]
- The story that he won the battle single-handedly is a mere fable.他只身赢得这场战斗的报道只是一个杜撰。
[noncount]
- He combines fact and fable to make a more interesting story.他将事实与传说结合起来，编了一个更加有趣的故事。
: a fictitious narrative or statement: such as
Example Sentences
Noun a fable about busy ants The story that he won the battle single-handedly is a mere fable. He combines fact and fable to make a more interesting story.
Recent Examples on the Web
CBS News, 1 Sep. 2022 What unfolds, like a La Fontaine fable, is all the more poignant for its inevitability. Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 Do each of your animal sculptures evoke a particular fable? Y-jean Mun-delsalle, Forbes, 1 July 2022 The Storyteller,’ a timeless fable, explores the mindset of people who exploit and are exploited. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 May 2022 After this clear-sighted fable, the signature fog that often swirls through Mr. Herzog’s shots descends on his thoughts, and on his prose. Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 29 July 2022 Indeed, another Pixar film, the medieval adventure Brave, tells a similar fable of mother-daughter friction and animal transformation, but delivers its message clumsily. David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022 Loyola Marymount University’s summer-long Shakespeare on the Bluff festival continues with the Bard’s fantastical fable about a deposed duke and his young daughter stranded on a magical isle. Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022 But this appealing if slight fable from director Jim Archer and writers David Earl and Chris Hayward (expanding on their 2017 short by the same name) tugs on a different set of heartstrings. Michael O'sullivan, Washington Post, 15 June 2022 Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022 Arrebato 4K restoration of Spanish filmmaker Iván Zulueta‘s hallucinatory 1980 horror fable about a director and a heroin addict. Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021 See More
Noun
The man who oversaw the dissolution of a Cold War superpower (who died this week at age 91) offered a Russian fable to explain his country's fate. CBS News, 1 Sep. 2022 What unfolds, like a La Fontaine fable, is all the more poignant for its inevitability. Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 Do each of your animal sculptures evoke a particular fable? Y-jean Mun-delsalle, Forbes, 1 July 2022 The Storyteller,’ a timeless fable, explores the mindset of people who exploit and are exploited. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 May 2022 After this clear-sighted fable, the signature fog that often swirls through Mr. Herzog’s shots descends on his thoughts, and on his prose. Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 29 July 2022 Indeed, another Pixar film, the medieval adventure Brave, tells a similar fable of mother-daughter friction and animal transformation, but delivers its message clumsily. David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022 Loyola Marymount University’s summer-long Shakespeare on the Bluff festival continues with the Bard’s fantastical fable about a deposed duke and his young daughter stranded on a magical isle. Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022 But this appealing if slight fable from director Jim Archer and writers David Earl and Chris Hayward (expanding on their 2017 short by the same name) tugs on a different set of heartstrings. Michael O'sullivan, Washington Post, 15 June 2022 Verb
Malcolm McDowell does in Stanley Kubrick’s still-shocking 1971 fable about street thugs in a dystopian Britain. Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022 Arrebato 4K restoration of Spanish filmmaker Iván Zulueta‘s hallucinatory 1980 horror fable about a director and a heroin addict. Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Latin fābula "talk, gossip, account, tale, legend," from fā-, stem of for, fārī "to speak, say" + -bula, feminine derivative of -bulum, instrumental suffix (going back to Indo-European *-dhlom) — more at ban entry 1
Verb
Middle English fablen, borrowed from Anglo-French fabler, fableier, going back to Latin fābulārī "to talk, converse, invent a story," verbal derivative of fābula "talk, account, fable entry 1"
First Known Use
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
Time Traveler
The first known use of fable was in the 14th century Phrases Containing fable
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