fable
noun
1. a deliberately false or improbable account
Similar word(s): fabrication, fiction
Definition categories: communication, falsehood, falsity, untruth
2. a short moral story (often with animal characters)
Similar word(s): allegory, apologue, parable
Definition categories: communication, story
3. a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
Similar word(s): legend
Definition categories: communication, story
verb
1. (intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
2. (transitive, archaic) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.