Tale vs. Fable

Talenoun

An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.

Talenoun

A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

Talenoun

A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.

Talenoun

(slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.

Talenoun

(obsolete) Number; tally; quota.

Talenoun

(obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.

Talenoun

(obsolete) Speech; language.

Talenoun

(obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.

Talenoun

A count; declaration.

Talenoun

A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.

Talenoun

A report of any matter; a relation; a version.

Taleverb

To speak; discourse; tell tales.

Taleverb

To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

Talenoun

See Tael.

Talenoun

That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

Talenoun

A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated.

Talenoun

A count or declaration.

Taleverb

To tell stories.

Talenoun

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;

Talenoun

a trivial lie;

Talenoun

a fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted

Talenoun

a lie.

Talenoun

a number or total

Fablenoun

A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.

Fablenoun

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

Fablenoun

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

Fableverb

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.

Fableverb

To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.

Fablenoun

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.

Fablenoun

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

Fablenoun

Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

Fablenoun

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

Fableverb

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

Fableverb

To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

Fablenoun

a deliberately false or improbable account

Fablenoun

a short moral story (often with animal characters)

Fablenoun

a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

Fable

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, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a ), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying. 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.