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Synonyms for fabled


Grammar : Adj
Spell : fey-buh ld
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfeɪ bəld



Définition of fabled

Origin :
  • c.1600, "unreal, invented," past participle adjective from fable (v.) "to tell tales" (late 14c.), from Old French fabler, from Latin fabulari, from fabula (see fable). Meaning "celebrated in fable" is from 1706.
  • adj legendary
Example sentences :
  • They were fabled as seven sisters, and one lost her place in the sky by marrying a mortal.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • A kind of celestial beings, which are fabled by the Hindoos.
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • For I may as well let you into the secret; this was not the fabled lake after all.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • I could have fancied him a fabled pirate of the Spanish Main.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various
  • One by one she could appraise her own possessions, and those they fabled of her.
  • Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
  • Like the fabled gift of the Egyptian, it was supposed to have 'magic in the web of it.'
  • Extract from : « Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 » by Various
  • His progress was almost as rapid as the growth of the fabled vine of Jack's bean.
  • Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass
  • "She looks like a fabled Naiad just risen from the deep," was my criticism on her.
  • Extract from : « Mizora: A Prophecy » by Mary E. Bradley
  • No; unless in that land, whither her face is set, she find the fabled Lethean stream.
  • Extract from : « The Death Shot » by Mayne Reid
  • As told in Stanza IV a giant was fabled to have inhabited this den.
  • Extract from : « Lady of the Lake » by Sir Walter Scott

Antonyms for fabled

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