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1
a story intended to teach a basic truth or moral about life
- this classic Christmas film is essentially a fable showing how every person's life has meaning and touches the lives of others
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2
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
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3
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
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4
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
- the fables that people tell themselves to rationalize their failures and shortcomings
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- fabrication,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- fib,
- lie,
- mendacity,
- prevarication,
- story,
- tale,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- untruth,
- whopper
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The first known use of fable was in the 14th century
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