Noun

(en noun)

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

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

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Old wives' fables .

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We grew / The fable of the city where we dwelt.

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

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It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.

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

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The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral.

Noun

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The aggregate of past events.

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, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Race Finished , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}

The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.

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A set of events involving an entity.

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A record or narrative description of past events.

A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.

A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

(informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

Shared experience or interaction.

There is too much history between them for them to split up now.

He has had a lot of history with the police.