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Fabled

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Made known or famous by fables; legendary.

adj. Existing only in fables; fictitious.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Known only in fables; fictitious.

adj. Made known by fables; legendary, famed.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Celebrated in fables; fabulously imagined.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. celebrated in fable or legend

Word Usage

"Miss Maszkeradi had sought precisely such a gruff, ancient tree-like male all her life, to whom she could have been as faithful as to this rooted, bark-bound, impassive trunk that had a face, as in fabled forests of old, hands in pockets, and a waist aslant, in a bored pose."

Verb Form

fabled fables fabling

Cross Reference

untruth story

Variant

apologue

Form

fabled fabling

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

fiction untruth falsehood feign invent

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Abel Cable Gable Mabel Mable

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

myth superstition romance tale anecdote