Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - fable
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Fable
fable
~ n 1 a traditional short story that teaches a moral lesson, especially a story about animals (the fable of the fox and the crow) 2 such stories considered as a group; legend (2) (monsters of fable and legend)
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(fables) 1. A fable is a story which teaches a moral lesson. Fables sometimes have animals as the main characters. ...the fable of the tortoise and the hare... Each tale has the timeless quality of fable. N-VAR 2. You can describe a statement or explanation that is untrue but that many people believe as fable. Is reincarnation fact or fable? ...little-known horticultural facts and fables. = myth N-VAR ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin fabula conversation, story, play, from fari to speak — more at ban Date: 14th century a fictitious narrative or statement: as a. a legendary story of supernatural happenings b. a narration intended to enforce a useful truth; especially one in which animals speak and act like human beings c. falsehood, lie II. verb (~d; fabling) Date: 14th century intransitive verb archaic to tell ~s transitive verb to talk or write about as if true • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a a story, esp. a supernatural one, not based on fact. b a tale, esp. with animals as characters, conveying a moral. 2 (collect.) myths and legendary tales (in fable). 3 a a false statement; a lie. b a thing only supposed to exist. --v. 1 intr. tell fictitious tales. 2 tr. describe fictitiously. 3 tr. (as fabled adj.) celebrated in fable; famous, legendary. Derivatives fabler n. Etymology: ME f. OF fabler f. L fabulari f. fabula discourse f. fari speak ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. басня Aesop's fables —- басни Эзопа fable book —- сборник басен fable writer —- баснописец 2. небылица, выдумка; ложь this is mere fable —- это все выдумка old wive's (women's) fables —- бабьи сказки 3. предмет всеобщих толков, излюбленная тема he became the chif fable of the village —- в деревне только о нем и говорили 4. легенда; предание 5. редк. фабула, сюжет 6. сочинять или рассказывать басни; придумывать небылицы, рассказывать сказки; лгать to say verity, and not to fable —- говорить правду, а не выдумывать 7. болтать вздор 8. гласить (о предании) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) басня 2) collect. мифы 3) небылица; выдумка; ложь 4) rare фабула Syn: see allegory 2. v. obs.; poet. выдумывать, рассказывать басни ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 13c., from O.Fr. fable, from L. fabula "story, play, fable," from fari "speak, tell," from PIE base *bha- "speak." Sense of "animal story" comes from Aesop. In modern folklore terms, defined as "a short, comic tale making a moral point about human nature, usually through animal characters behaving in human ways." Most trace to Greece or India. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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