Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Fabulist

Fab′u-list

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
fabuliste
, fr. L.
fabula
. See
Fable
.]
One who invents or writes fables.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fabulist

FABULIST

,
Noun.
[from fable.] The inventor or writer of fables.

Definition 2024


fabulist

fabulist

English

Noun

fabulist (plural fabulists)

  1. One who writes or tells fables.
    • 1843, Abraham Lincoln, Address to the People of Illinois:
      That great fabulist and philosopher Aesop illustrated it by his fable of the bundle of sticks...
  2. A liar.

Translations