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FABULIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fabulist mean?
• FABULIST (noun)
The noun FABULIST has 1 sense:
1. a person who tells or invents fables
Familiarity information: FABULIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who tells or invents fables
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("fabulist" is a kind of...):
narrator; storyteller; teller (someone who tells a story)
Instance hyponyms:
Aesop (Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC))
Derivation:
fable (a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events)
fable (a short moral story (often with animal characters))
fable (a deliberately false or improbable account)
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