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fable

gb/fˈeɪbəl/ us/fˈeɪbəl/
B1 انگریزی
~ 8300
معانی
0 معانی
اسم B1 entity
1

Short moral story, often with animals

A short made-up story that teaches a lesson, often using animals that can talk and think like people.

استعمال کا انداز: a fable about [something]
عام غلطی:
Learners often confuse "fable" with "fairy tale" and "parable". A fable is usually short, has a clear moral, and often uses talking animals. A fairy tale often has magic and fantasy elements and is not always focused on a clear lesson. A parable is similar to a fable but is often connected to religion and usually uses human characters.
ہم معنی الفاظ
moral tale (Highlights the teaching aspect more directly and can include stories without animals.) | parable (Often has a religious or spiritual context, while a fable is usually secular and uses animals.)
متضاد الفاظ
true story (Describes an account based on real events, not an invented story created to teach a lesson.)
لفظی تراکیب
Aesop's fables |animal fable |children's fable |write a fable |classic fable |moral of the fable
موضوعات
literature |education |morality |arts_entertainment
مثالیں
  • As a child, she loved the fable about the tortoise and the hare.
  • The teacher used a simple fable to explain why honesty is important.
  • In many fables, animals speak and behave like humans to show human strengths and weaknesses.
  • He wrote a modern fable about technology and friendship for his literature class.
  • The film feels like a dark fable warning us about greed.
سیکھنے والوں کے لیے مثالیں
  • We read a short fable in class today.
  • This fable teaches children to be kind.
  • In the fable, a small mouse helps a big lion.
  • My grandfather told me a fable before bed.
  • The fable has a clear lesson at the end.
اسم literary B2 entity
2

Traditional story not based on fact

An old, famous story that many people know and repeat, but that is not really true history.

استعمال کا انداز: the fable of [something]
عام غلطی:
Learners may think this sense always includes animals and an explicit moral, like the basic sense of "fable". In this literary or cultural use, a fable can be any traditional story or widely repeated narrative about a people or place, even without animal characters or a clear lesson.
ہم معنی الفاظ
myth (Very close in meaning; "myth" is more common and can also mean a false belief, not just a traditional story.)
متضاد الفاظ
historical fact (Stresses that something is supported by evidence and actually happened, unlike a fable.)
لفظی تراکیب
ancient fable |founding fable |national fable |cultural fable |the fable of the hero
موضوعات
culture |history |society |arts_entertainment |religion
مثالیں
  • The book challenges the comforting fable of the nation's peaceful past.
  • Over time, the general became a figure of fable, larger than life in the public imagination.
  • The movie repeats the old fable of the self-made millionaire who starts with nothing.
  • He argued that the story of endless economic growth is a dangerous modern fable.
  • Tour guides still tell the romantic fable of how the city was founded by star-crossed lovers.
سیکھنے والوں کے لیے مثالیں
  • Many people believe the fable of a perfect golden age in the past.
  • The leader became part of the country's fable after the war.
  • Some say the island was created by gods, but that is just a fable.
  • The author questions the fable of the brave, lonely hero.
  • Tourists hear a nice fable about how the bridge was built.
اسم literary C1 entity
3

Invented story, a lie

A made-up story that is not true but is told as if it were true.

استعمال کا انداز: a mere fable
عام غلطی:
Learners may assume this sense still includes a moral or animal characters. Here, "fable" is used to criticize a story as false or too perfect to be real, often in news, essays, or formal speech.
ہم معنی الفاظ
fabrication (A formal word that focuses on the deliberate act of creating a false story.)
متضاد الفاظ
truth (Represents what is real and factual, the opposite of an invented story.)
لفظی تراکیب
mere fable |pure fable |a convenient fable |popular fable |polite fable
موضوعات
truth |communication |criticism |core_vocabulary
مثالیں
  • The report shows that the tidy story of a single genius inventor is largely a fable.
  • He dismissed the rumor as a comforting fable people tell themselves.
  • Her version of events is a polite fable that hides what really happened.
  • The idea that success comes overnight is a dangerous fable.
  • Historians now see that as a convenient fable created to excuse the company’s actions.
سیکھنے والوں کے لیے مثالیں
  • The story about him saving the company was just a fable.
  • Many people still believe this, but scientists say it is a fable.
  • The idea that he never made mistakes is a fable.
  • They called his excuse a fable and did not trust him.
  • She said the news was a fable and asked for proof.
اسم technical C1 entity
4

The literary genre of fables

A type of story in literature that is always short, not real, and made to teach a clear lesson.

استعمال کا انداز: the fable as [a genre]
عام غلطی:
Learners may not realize that "fable" can mean not just one story, but also the whole type or genre of such stories, especially in academic or literary discussion.
ہم معنی الفاظ
allegory (A related literary form where the whole story represents something else; not always short or explicitly moral like a fable.)
متضاد الفاظ
realistic fiction (Fiction that aims to represent life as it is, not stylized moral teaching like a fable.)
لفظی تراکیب
the fable as a genre |study the fable |classical fable |modern fable |the tradition of the fable
موضوعات
literature |education |arts_entertainment
مثالیں
  • In this course, we will examine the fable as a didactic genre.
  • The fable occupies an important place in early children's literature.
  • She argues that the modern graphic novel sometimes functions as a kind of fable.
  • Critics have noted how the director borrows structures from the fable to shape the film.
  • The fable evolved alongside the parable and the fairy tale in European traditions.
سیکھنے والوں کے لیے مثالیں
  • We studied the fable in my literature class.
  • The teacher said the fable is an old kind of story genre.
  • Some modern books use the form of the fable.
  • He wrote his thesis on the fable and the fairy tale.
  • The fable is easy to use in classes for young students.
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fable
IPA
GB/fˈeɪbəl/
US/fˈeɪbəl/
ہجا بندی اور زور
fable (1 ہجا)
Stress on 1st syllable (fable)
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Noun
  • Base: fable
  • Plural: fable, fables
متعلقہ الفاظ
Forms
fables noun
Related words
fabled adjective fabulous adjective B1 fabulously adverb C1
Advanced or less common
fabulist noun
عبارات

moral of the fable

1
/mˈɔɹəl əv ðə fˈeɪbəl/
fixed phrase

Main lesson of a fable

The main lesson or message that the fable wants to teach you.

مثالیں
  • The moral of the fable is that slow and steady effort wins in the end.
  • Ask the students what they think the moral of the fable is.
  • The teacher wrote the moral of the fable on the board after reading it aloud.
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ہم تھرڈ پارٹی اشتہاری کوکیز یا کراس سائٹ ٹریکنگ پکسلز استعمال نہیں کرتے۔
ہم اپنی ایپ کو روانی سے چلانے، کارکردگی کا تجزیہ کرنے، اور آپ کے تجربے کو بہتر بنانے کے لیے کوکیز اور اسی طرح کی ٹیکنالوجیز استعمال کرتے ہیں۔
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