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Æsop

Æsop is the obsolete form of Aesop.

Meaning of Aesop

Proper noun

Aesop

  1. An Ancient Greek author, famous for the fables ascribed to him.
    • I'll win them by politeness, and... and... show them that I've nothing to do with that Aesop, that buffoon, that Pierrot, and have merely been taken in over this affair, just as they have.1912, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, published 1880, Book II, chapter 8

Questions about Æsop

What is Æsop the obsolete form of?
Æsop is the obsolete form of Aesop.

Words near Æsop in the dictionary

  1. Æsculapian
  2. æsculin
  3. æsh
  4. æshes
  5. Æsir
  6. Æsop
  7. Æsopean
  8. Æsopian
  9. æsteem
  10. æsteemed
  11. æsteeming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Æsop (page history and authors); Aesop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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