Meaning of fable in English
(Definition of fable from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
fable | Intermediate English
Latisha loves the fable about the grasshopper and the ant.
Examples of fable
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Not for nothing do we have the fable of the slow and steady tortoise winning the race.
From TIME
It was the fable of a forlorn burro trapped at the bottom of a well.
From Wired
The attractions are based on elements from ancient myths and legends, fairy tales, fables and folklore.
From ABC News
We don't need you or your crackpot fable to tell us how to live.
From CNN
It really made the episode feel like a fable.
From Los Angeles Times
What plot there is vaguely recalls a myth or a fable, but the show is heavier on winsome atmosphere and theatrical effects.
From New York Post
People who staked their lives, and continue to do so, not on fables and fantasies, but on what they came to understand as the truth.
From CNN
The company's short but profitable life span serves as an instructional fable for other cities that will inevitably face climate change-related infrastructure problems.
From Los Angeles Times
These are the fables we tell each other, so as to inspire and awe.
From ESPN
You have a different story in ballet -- it's almost like a fairy tale, it's a fable, it's like princes.
From NPR
The mystery still remains as to if the legend of a haunted house is a fact or fable.
From Huffington Post
It is about transformation -- a common ingredient in so many green myths and fables.
From The Seattle Times
But, as in the fable, this ruin is predestined, and completely unrelated to how "right" you do things.
From Slate Magazine
The movie exists almost entirely within the tension between fantasy and reality, a fable on domesticity.
From Los Angeles Times
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ぐう話, 寓話（ぐうわ）…
hayvan masalı, alegorik hikaye, fabl…
fable [feminine], fable, légende…
faula…
fabel…
fabel, myte, sagn…
fabel, saga, myt…
cerita teladan, legenda…
die Fabel, das Märchen…
fabel [masculine], fabel, oppdiktet historie…
байка, казка, вигадка…
басня…
أمثولة, حِكاية…
bajka, legenda, výmysl…
fabel, legenda…
นิทานสอนใจ, ตำนาน…
truyện ngụ ngôn, truyền thuyết…
bajka, bajeczka…
동화…
favola, mito, leggenda…
