Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A composer of fables.
- noun A teller of tales; a liar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inventor or a writer of fables; a fabler; a maker of fictions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who invents or writes fables.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who writes or tells
fables - noun a
liar
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who tells or invents fables
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But because its Aleksandar Hemon, the stories extend far beyond the immigrant experience; each one is punctuated with unexpected humor and spins out in fabulist, exhilarating directions, ultimately building to an insightful, often heartbreaking conclusion.
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Fontaine will feel that Gay the fabulist is a writer whose work the world has let die very willingly indeed.
Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876
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I tend to read very unusual fiction - horror, dark fantasy, slipstream and "fabulist" or "New Weird", and anything that touches on gender, race and sexual issues.
INTO THIS MIND -- Opening Chapters Tia Nevitt 2007
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He is new to the mystery field, but he has published numerous stories he terms "fabulist" that range from speculative fiction to fantasy to quiet atmospheric horror.
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He is new to the mystery field, but he has published numerous stories he terms "fabulist" that range from speculative fiction to fantasy to quiet atmospheric horror.
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A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon.
Manhood for Amateurs: Summary and book reviews of Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon. 2009
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"The Children's Hospital, a sprawling and impassioned morality tale in which a catastrophe of biblical scale wipes out nearly all life, human and otherwise, on Earth despite its weaknesses, The Children's Hospital establishes Chris Adrian as a remarkable American fabulist in the tradition of Melvin Jules Bukiet and Tony Kushner, writers who define and confront the terrifying moral choices of a new century."
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With an eye ever open for the absurdity of her vocation, Mr. Gottlieb steers us through a thicket of fictions and half-truths about Sarah, many of them perpetrated by the "relentless fabulist" herself.
Actress, Seductress Norman Lebrecht 2010
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It is not, to use a rather nebulous term, the "best" book about wine I've read -- that distinction rests with Neal Rosenthal's Reflections of a Wine Merchant -- but it reads like fabulous and fabulist fiction, and that's a real credit to the author, considering it's not fiction at all.
Book Reviews 2009
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It is not, to use a rather nebulous term, the "best" book about wine I've read -- that distinction rests with Neal Rosenthal's Reflections of a Wine Merchant -- but it reads like fabulous and fabulist fiction, and that's a real credit to the author, considering it's not fiction at all.
LENNDEVOURS: 2009
seanahan commented on the word fabulist
A composer of fables, or in general, someone who tells fantastical untruths. Also, see technomage.
August 26, 2007
kewpid commented on the word fabulist
A fabulous word list
September 21, 2007
reesetee commented on the word fabulist
That, or marvelist. ;-)
September 21, 2007
bilby commented on the word fabulist
This word appears in an intriguing short story. I can't cite just fabulist, you need to read the lot for the sense of this.
December 2, 2007
reesetee commented on the word fabulist
Wonderful! Thanks, bilby!
December 2, 2007