fables

NOUN

fantasy, story

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fantasy fiction legend myth parable tale yarn

STRONG

allegory apologue bestiary bunk crock fabrication falsehood fib figment hogwash invention lie romance untruth whopper

WEAK

fairy story fairy tale fish story old chestnut old saw one for the birds tall story white lie

Antonyms

STRONGEST

non-fiction truth

STRONG

sense

Example Sentences

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Morley has accepted the FABLES, and I have seen it in proof, and think less of it than ever.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

FABLES; Original and Selected:—With an introductory dissertation on the History of Fable, and comprising Biographical Notices of the most eminent Fabulists, by G. Moir Bussey.

From Heathen Mythology by Various

Also, *PERSIAN FABLES, for Young and Old. 1s.

From Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by Gleig, G. R. (George Robert)