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Aesop-like

Aesop-like adjective: resembling a fable or moral of Aesop.

Adjective

Aesop-like (comparative more Aesop-like, superlative most Aesop-like)

  1. Resembling a fable or moral of Aesop.
    • As regards the map, this was the beginning of an Aesop-like fable - 'How the Underground lines got their colours' - because they were all given a colour, although not the 'right' ones from today's perspective.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 158

Forms of Aesop-like

comparativemore Aesop-like
superlativemost Aesop-like
alternative formAesoplike

Origin of Aesop-like

From Aesop + -like.

Questions about Aesop-like

What does Aesop-like mean?
Aesop-like means resembling a fable or moral of Aesop.
What part of speech is Aesop-like?
Aesop-like is an adjective.

Words near Aesop-like in the dictionary

  1. Aesop
  2. Aesop prawn
  3. Aesop prawns
  4. Aesop shrimp
  5. Aesop shrimps
  6. Aesop-like
  7. Aesopean
  8. Aesopian
  9. Aesopianism
  10. Aesopianisms
  11. Aesopic

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