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fabulates

fabulates is the plural of fabulate.

fabulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fabulate.

Meaning of fabulate

Noun

fabulate (countable and uncountable, plural fabulates)

  1. A folk story that is not entirely believable.
    • It is a rule, though, that each fabulate, as well as every other narrative that requires credence or pretense or at least the possibility of belief as its ingredient, is based on either a truly existing or an assumed memorate[…] or something similar.1974, Linda Dégh, Andrew Vázsonyi, “The memorate and the proto-memorate”, in The Journal of American Folklore, volume 87, →DOI, page 232
  2. (specifically) A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.
    • To jocular fabulates (Sherzfabulate) I place inter alia some of the “Tales of the Stupid Ogre” in Aarne’s Type Register.1948, Carl von Sydow, Selected Papers on Folklore, page 87

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Questions about fabulates

What is fabulates the plural of?
Fabulates is the plural of fabulate.

Words near fabulates in the dictionary

  1. fabula
  2. fabulae
  3. fabular
  4. fabulate
  5. fabulated
  6. fabulates
  7. fabulating
  8. fabulation
  9. fabulations
  10. fabulator
  11. fabulators

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