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1. A deliberately false or improbable account
   - fabrication, fiction
    
2. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
   - parable, allegory, apologue
    
3. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
   - legend

Derived forms: fables

See also: fabulist, fabulous

Type of: falsehood, falsity, story, untruth

Encyclopedia: Fable