Fable

  • 11Fable — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Fable es un videojuego destinado a las plataformas Microsoft Xbox, PC y Mac OS X desarrollado por Lionhead Studios. Fable puede considerarse como un juego de rol de acción donde podemos crear nuestro propio héroe, el …

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  • 12fable — (n.) c.1300, falsehood, lie, pretense, from O.Fr. fable (12c.) story, fable, tale; fiction, lie, falsehood, from L. fabula story, play, fable, narrative, account, tale, lit. that which is told, related to fari speak, tell, from PIE root *bha (2)… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 13fable — FABLE, Fabula, Apologus. Comme les fables le racontent, Vt ferunt fabulae. Dire chascun sa fable, Ex symbolo fabulas conferre. B. ex Macrob. Raconter une fable, Apologum facere, vel agere. Racontement de fables, Apologatio, Fabulatio …

    Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • 14Fable — Fa ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fabled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fabling}.] To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true. He Fables not. Shak. [1913 Webster] Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell. Prior.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 15Fable — Fa ble, v. t. To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely. [1913 Webster] The hell thou fablest. Milton. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 16fable — index fiction, lie (falsify), myth Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 17fable — 1 *fiction, fabrication, figment 2 myth, parable, *allegory …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 18fable — [n] fantasy, story allegory, apologue, bestiary, bunk*, crock*, fabrication, fairy story, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story*, hogwash*, invention, legend, lie, myth, old chestnut*, old saw*, one for the birds*,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 19fable — ► NOUN 1) a short story with a moral, typically featuring animals as characters. 2) a supernatural story incorporating elements of myth and legend. 3) myth and legend. DERIVATIVES fabler noun. ORIGIN Old French, from Latin fabula story …

    English terms dictionary

  • 20fable — [fā′bəl] n. [ME < OFr < L fabula, a story < fari, to speak: see FAME] 1. a fictitious story meant to teach a moral lesson: the characters are usually talking animals 2. a myth or legend 3. a story that is not true; falsehood 4. Archaic… …

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