What is "fable"

Fable \Fa"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fabled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fabling.] To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true. ``He Fables not.''
--Shak.

Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.
--Prior.

He fables, yet speaks truth.
--M. Arnold.

Fable \Fa"ble\ (f[=a]"b'l), n. [F., fr. L. fabula, fr. fari to speak, say. See Ban, and cf. Fabulous, Fame.]

1. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.

   Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant.
   --Addison.

   Note: A fable may have talking animals anthropomorphically cast as humans representing different character types, sometimes illustrating some moral principle; as, Aesop's Fables.

2. The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

   The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral.
   --Dryden.

3. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. ``Old wives' fables. ''
   --1 Tim. iv. 7.

   We grew The fable of the city where we dwelt.
   --Tennyson.

4. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

   It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.
   --Addison.

Fable \Fa"ble\, v. t. To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

The hell thou fablest.
--Milton.

c.1300, "falsehood, fictitious narrative; a lie, pretense," from Old French fable "story, fable, tale; drama, play, fiction; lie, falsehood" (12c.), from Latin fabula "story, story with a lesson, tale, narrative, account; the common talk, news," literally "that which is told," from fari "speak, tell," from PIE root *bha- (2) "speak" (see fame (n.)). Restricted sense of "animal story" (early 14c.) comes from Aesop. In modern folklore terms, defined as "a short, comic tale making a moral point about human nature, usually through animal characters behaving in human ways" ["Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore"].

n. 1 A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, http://en.wikipedi

1. org/wiki/Aesop's%20Fables. 2 Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. 3 fiction; untruth; falsehood. 4 The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem. v

2. 1 (context intransitive archaic English) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true. 2 (context transitive archaic English) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

1. n. a deliberately false or improbable account [syn: fabrication, fiction]

2. a short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn: parable, allegory, apologue]

3. a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events [syn: legend]

A fable is a story intended to illustrate a moral.

Fable or fables may also refer to:

Fable is a British television play, shown on 27 January 1965 as an episode of The Wednesday Play series on BBC 1. Written by John Hopkins, the play is set in a parallel totalitarian Britain where those in authority are black people, and white people are their social underdogs - a reversal of the situation in contemporary apartheid South Africa.

It was directed by Christopher Morahan and produced by James MacTaggart.

Fable is a PC point and click adventure game developed by Simbiosis Interactive, which was the company's only release. It was published in North America by Sir-Tech and internationally by Telstar Electronic Studios.

Fable is a series of action role-playing video games for Xbox, Microsoft Windows, OS X, Xbox 360 and Xbox One platforms. The series was developed by Lionhead Studios until the studio was closed in 2016, and is published by Microsoft Studios.

Fable (born 19 May 1995, Paignton, Devon) is an English musician and singer best known for her work with Archive and Paul Hartnoll. Her work has been variously compared in the British press to the likes of Thom Yorke. and Nine Inch Nails. Fable has recently toured with both Archive and British rock band, The Cult. She is also performing on the Shangri-La Hell stage at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival

Fable currently resides in Brighton, UK.

Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as the ability to speak human language) and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim.

A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind.

Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the King James Version of the New Testament, "" (" mythos") was rendered by the translators as "fable" in the First Epistle to Timothy, the Second Epistle to Timothy, the Epistle to Titus and the First Epistle of Peter.

A person who writes fables is a fabulist.

Fable is an action role-playing video game, the first in the Fable series. It was developed for the Xbox, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X platforms by Big Blue Box Studios, a satellite developer of Lionhead Studios, and was published by Microsoft Studios. The game shipped for the Xbox in September 2004. An extended version of the game, Fable: The Lost Chapters, was released for the Xbox and Windows in September 2005. A port of the game for Mac OS X, created by Robosoft Technologies and published by Feral Interactive, was released in March 2008 after a delay of more than two years due to licensing issues.

Originally developed under the name Project Ego, Fables development involved more than 150 people. The game's music was composed by Russell Shaw, with the opening title theme written by Danny Elfman. The game's release was widely anticipated, due in part to Lionhead cofounder Peter Molyneux's enthusiastic hype of the game.

Fable was well received by critics for the quality of its gameplay and execution, though the failure to include many promised features was noted. Fable was the top-selling game of September 2004 and sold more than two million units by 2007. The game was followed by two sequels, Fable II in 2008 and Fable III in 2010. Fable Anniversary, a high-definition remake of the game that includes The Lost Chapters, was released for the Xbox 360 in February 2014.

Fable (alternatively Legend ) is a 2000 Mandarin album by Beijing-based C-pop singer Faye Wong.

The album can be considered in three sections. The first five tracks deal with certain aspects of Buddhism, incorporating motifs from fairy tales especially Cinderella. The next three are radio-friendly pop songs. The next two, "Farewell Firefly" and "Book of Laughter and Forgetting", are somewhat more complex musically; they are sung in Mandarin, and are followed by alternate versions in Cantonese, "Firefly" and "Love Letters to Myself".

The first five songs form a song cycle and were composed by Faye Wong herself, marking her further development as a songwriter. Three of them featured as the final segment of every performance in Wong's 2010–2012 Comeback Tour.

All the lyrics on the album are by Lin Xi, and tracks 1–5 were produced by Zhang Yadong, both of whom were regularly collaborating with Wong during this period of her career. Alvin Leong produced tracks 6–12.

"Fable" is a song by the Swiss-Italian musician Robert Miles. It was released in May 1996 as the second single from his album Dreamland. The song features uncredited vocals from Fiorella Quinn.

It was a hit in several countries, reaching top ten in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland and UK. Its highest position in Europe was number 2 in Finland, but the single was unable to dislodge Metallica's " Until It Sleeps", which topped the chart then.

The song was charted in 1997, as third single (after " Children" and " One and One"), on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play on which it peaked at number one for one week.