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fable

('f/eI/b/@/l )

a deliberately false or improbable account(noun.communication)

Synonym:
fabrication, fiction

source: wordnet30
a short moral story (often with animal characters)(noun.communication)

Synonym:
allegory, apologue, parable

source: wordnet30
a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events(noun.communication)

Synonym:
legend

source: wordnet30
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.(noun)

source: webster1913

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.(verb)

source: webster1913
To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.(verb)

source: webster1913

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