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FABLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fabled mean?
• FABLED (adjective)
The adjective FABLED has 1 sense:
1. celebrated in fable or legend
Familiarity information: FABLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Celebrated in fable or legend
Synonyms:
fabled; legendary
Context example:
legendary exploits of Jesse James
Similar:
unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)
Context examples
Or, perhaps,—who can tell? —it was that fabled sixth sense which conveyed to him the loom and feel of an object close at hand.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
When Buck earned sixteen hundred dollars in five minutes for John Thornton, he made it possible for his master to pay off certain debts and to journey with his partners into the East after a fabled lost mine, the history of which was as old as the history of the country.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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