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fablenoun a story intended to teach a basic truth or moral about lifethis classic Christmas film is essentially a fable showing how every person's life has meaning and touches the lives of others a traditional but unfounded story that gives the reason for a current custom, belief, or fact of natureaccording to an ancient fable the waters of the mountain spring are the tears of a woman weeping for her lost children legend, myth, mythos allegory, parablefabrication, fantasy(also phantasy), fiction, figment, inventionnarrative, saga, story, tale, yarn something that is the product of the imaginationthe stories of lost cities of gold may have been fables deliberately concocted by Native Americans to dupe the Spanish fabrication, fantasy(also phantasy), fiction, figment, invention anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarnfairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whoppermake-believe fact, materiality, reality actuality, realness a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceivethe fables that people tell themselves to rationalize their failures and shortcomings fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle(or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper distortion, exaggeration, half-truthambiguity, equivocation, obliquitydefamation, libel, slanderperjurybluff, fiction, pose, pretense(or pretence)humbug, jive, nonsensecanard, fallacy, misconception, mythfalsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatementdeceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence truth fact, truism, verityhonesty, truthfulness, veracityauthentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification in the 14th century |