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