Usually means: Short fictional story with moral.
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  1. fable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. fable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. fable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. fable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fable (Robert Miles song), Fable (TV play), Fable (album), Fable (disambiguation), Fable (song), Fable (video game), Fable (video game series), Fable, The Fable (El Greco): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fable: Rhymezone
  19. fable, fable (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  24. fable: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. FABLE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  1. Fable: Easton Bible
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  1. F'able, fable: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
noun:  Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
noun:  Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
noun:  The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.

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