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fábula
feminine noun
1. fable (relato); legend, myth (leyenda)
  • lo pasamos de fábula -> we had a fabulous o fantastic time
2. piece of gossip (rumor)

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fábula [fah'-boo-lah]
noun
1. Fable, a feigned story, to enforce some moral precept. (f)
2. Rumor, report, common talk (rumor, chisme). (f)
3. Fable, a fiction, a lie, a false-hood (mentira). (f)
4. Fable, the series of events which constitute a poem: a legend. (f)
5. Mockery, derision. (f)
  • Está hecho la fábula del mundo -> he is become the laughing-stock of the whole world
6. (f)
verb
7. MITOLOGÍA.
8. Un negocio de fábula, a splendid piece of business.

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fábula
1 (Literat) fable; (historia) tale; story
les está contando la fábula de la liebre y la tortuga
la fábula de Polifemo y Galatea el gionista introduce su característico humor negro en una fábula que tiene más de melodrama que de sátira
2 (rumor) rumour; rumor; (EEUU)
no sé quién habrá extendido esa fábula
 (chisme) (piece of) gossip
no hagas caso de fábulas
 (mentira) invention
es solo una fábula
3
es de fábula it's fabulous
se han comprado una casa de fábula fue una boda de fábula
4 (argumento) plot; story
5 (persona) talk of the town; laughing-stock

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