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AESOP'S FABLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aesop's fables mean? 

AESOP'S FABLES (noun)
  The noun AESOP'S FABLES has 1 sense:

1. a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesopplay

  Familiarity information: AESOP'S FABLES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AESOP'S FABLES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Aesop's fables" is a kind of...):

allegory; apologue; fable; parable (a short moral story (often with animal characters))


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