| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| |
| fable |
| |
| SYLLABICATION: | fa·ble |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f  b l |
| NOUN: | 1. A usually short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that speak and act like humans. 2. A story about legendary persons and exploits. 3. A falsehood; a lie. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: fa·bled, fa·bling, fa·bles
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To recount as if true. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Archaic To compose fables. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fbula, from fr , to speak. See bh-2 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | fabler —NOUN
| | |
| |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
