[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue :Aesop's fables.the fable of the tortoise and the hare;Aesop's fables.", "a story not founded on fact:This biography is largely a self-laudatory fable.", "a story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents; legend :the fables of gods and heroes.", "legends or myths collectively:the heroes of Greek fable.", "an untruth; falsehood :This boast of a cure is a medical fable.", "the plot of an epic, a dramatic poem, or a play.", "idle talk:old wives' fables."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to tell or write fables.", "to speak falsely; lie:to fable about one's past."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to describe as if actually so; talk about as if true:She is fabled to be the natural daughter of a king."]}]