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  2. Fable Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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    The meaning of FABLE is a fictitious narrative or statement. How to use fable in a sentence.

  3. Fable - Wikipedia

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    Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.

  4. FABLE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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    FABLE definition: 1. a short story that tells a general truth or is only partly based on fact, or literature of this…. Learn more.

  5. FABLE Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

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    Fable definition: a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue. See examples of FABLE used in a sentence.

  6. fable, narrative form, usually featuring animals that behave and speak as human beings, told in order to highlight human follies and weaknesses. A moral—or lesson for behaviour—is woven into the story and often explicitly formulated at the end.

  7. What Are Fables? Complete with Examples - ThoughtCo

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    A fable is a fictional narrative meant to teach a moral lesson. The characters in a fable are usually animals whose words and actions reflect human behavior. A form of folk literature, the fable is also one of the progymnasmata. Some of the best-known fables are those attributed to Aesop, an enslaved man who lived in Greece in the sixth century BC.

  8. FABLE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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    FABLE meaning: 1. a short story that tells a general truth or is only partly based on fact, or literature of this…. Learn more.