Dictionary Entry
fable
fable is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
- 2noun
The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
- 3noun
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
- 4noun
Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
- 5intransitive verb
To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
- 6transitive verb
To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
- 7noun
a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
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- 8noun
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- 9noun
a deliberately false or improbable account
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