Fable and Fact

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Fable noun - Something that is the product of the imagination.

Usage example: the stories of lost cities of gold may have been fables deliberately concocted by Native Americans to dupe the Spanish

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Fact is an antonym for fable in fiction topic.

Nearby Word: fabled

Fact noun - The quality of being actual.

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Fable is an antonym for fact in truth topic.

Nearby Words: factor, factual, factually

old	old fable	old fact
long	long fable	long fact
similar	similar fable	similar fact
short	short fable	short fact
Other adjectives: popular, actual, well-known, mere, above, last, several, historical.

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