| NOUN | communication | fable, fabrication, fiction | a deliberately false / false or improbable account |
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| communication | fable, parable, allegory, apologue | a short / short moral story (often with animal characters) | |
| communication | fable, legend | a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events |
| Sounds | fey'bahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | A deliberately false / false or improbable account. | |
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| Synonyms | fabrication, fiction | |
| Narrower | canard | A deliberately misleading fabrication |
| Broader | falsehood, falsity, untruth | A false statement |
| Spanish | elucubración, fábula, ficción, invención | |
| Catalan | faula, ficció, invenció | |
| Adjectives | fabulous | barely credible |
| Nouns | fabulist | a person who tells or invents / invents fables |
| Meaning | A short / short moral story (often with animal characters). | |
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| Synonyms | parable, allegory, apologue | |
| Instances | Pilgrim's Progress | An allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678 |
| Narrower | Aesop's fables | A collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop |
| Broader | story | A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events |
| Spanish | alegoría, aplogo, apólogo, fábula, parábola | |
| Catalan | al·legoria, apòleg, faula, paràbola | |
| Adjectives | fabulous | based on or told of in traditional stories |
| Nouns | fabulist | a person who tells or invents / invents fables |
| Meaning | A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events. | |
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| Synonym | legend | |
| Category of | Iseult, Isolde | (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other |
| Midas | (Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold | |
| Round Table, King Arthur's Round Table | (legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights | |
| Sisyphus | (Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill | |
| Tristan, Tristram | (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other | |
| grail, Holy Grail, Sangraal | (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper | |
| hagiology | literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints | |
| Narrower | Arthurian legend | The legend of King Arthur and his court at Camelot |
| Broader | story | A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events |
| Spanish | fábula, leyenda | |
| Catalan | fàbula, llegenda | |
| Adjectives | fabulous | based on or told of in traditional stories |
| Nouns | fabulist | a person who tells or invents / invents fables |
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