Definition of fables

"fables" in the noun sense

1. fabrication, fiction, fable

a deliberately false or improbable account

2. fable, parable, allegory, apologue

a short moral story (often with animal characters)

3. legend, fable

a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

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Quotations for fables

More strange than true, I never may believe
These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. [ William Shakespeare ]

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables. [ Whately ]

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. [ Thackeray ]

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie, and teach that truth is truest poesy. [ Cowley ]

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. [ Addison ]

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. [ Bacon ]

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway. [ Ouida ]

The exhaustion of taste, genius, and splendor upon its fables and ceremonies, even to our times, constitute the ancient paganism a marvel of all that was attractive and magnificent. [ R. W. Hamilton ]

The difference between a parable and an apologue is that the former, being drawn from human life, requires probability in the narration, whereas the apologue, being taken from inanimate things or the inferior animals, is not confined strictly to probability. The fables of Aesop are apologues. [ Fleming ]

fables in Scrabble®

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

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Words within the letters of fables

2 letter words in fables (7 words)

3 letter words in fables (9 words)

5 letter words in fables (7 words)

6 letter words in fables (1 word)

fables + 1 blank (4 words)

Words containing the sequence fables

Words that start with fables (1 word)

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Words that end with fables (1 word)

Word Growth involving fables

Shorter words in fables

ab able fable

fa fable

Longer words containing fables

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