What is another word for fables?

Pronunciation: [fˈe͡ɪbə͡lz] (IPA)

Fables are short stories, typically featuring animals as characters, that convey a moral or lesson. There are many synonyms for the word fables, such as parable, allegory, tale, myth, and legend. A parable is a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, much like a fable. An allegory is a story that uses symbolism to convey a deeper meaning or message. A tale is any narrative story, which can include fables, legends, or myths. A myth is a traditional story or belief that explains the origins of things, while a legend is a story about a historical or heroic figure passed down through generations. All of these words share similarities with fables and are often used interchangeably.

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Usage examples for Fables

But adequate as the plates may seem, if they are judged not as book-illustrations but as engravings, no one could rate them high, and as a book what is to be said of an edition of La Fontaine's fables, which fills four volumes, each measuring nearly nineteen inches by thirteen?
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
I snap my fingers at such fables.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
It was a melancholy fact that after working for fifteen hours a day they sat down to read mere fables about men and women more or less like themselves, and about children more or less like their own.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Famous quotes with Fables

  • Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
    Thomas Aquinas
  • All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
    Walt Disney
  • The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
    William Feather
  • fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
    Hypatia
  • How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
    Michel de Montaigne

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