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a story intended to teach a basic truth or moral about life<this classic Christmas film is essentially a fable showing how every personʼs life has meaning and touches the lives of others>— see allegory
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a traditional but unfounded story that gives the reason for a current custom, belief, or fact of nature<according to an ancient fable the waters of the mountain spring are the tears of a woman weeping for her lost children>— see myth 1
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something that is the product of the imagination<the stories of lost cities of gold may have been fables deliberately concocted by Native Americans to dupe the Spanish>— see fiction
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