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fairy tale

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fair=y tale

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun fairy tale has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

fairy talen. 
  •  a story about magical or mythological creatures, such as fairies, elves, goblins, trolls, orcs, unicorns, wizards, dragons, etc., usually composed for the amusement of children; called also a fairy story.  [PJC]
  •  a false story intended to deceive or mislead, especially one involving unlikely events or situations; called also a fairy story.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

fairy tale

Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, apologue, bedtime story, blague, cock-and-bull story, detective story, exaggeration, fable, fabliau, falsehood, falsity, fantasy, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, folk story, folktale, gest, ghost story, half-truth, horse opera, legal fiction, legend, lie, little white lie, love story, mendacity, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, nursery tale, parable, pious fiction, prevarication, romance, science fiction, shocker, slight stretching, space fiction, space opera, story, suspense story, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, thriller, trumped-up story, untruth, white lie, whodunit, work of fiction, yarn

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Description

N description, account, statement, report, expose, specification, particulars, state of facts, summary of facts, brief, return, catalogue raisonne, guidebook, delineation, sketch, monograph, minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account, narration, recital, rehearsal, relation, historiography, chronography, historic Muse, Clio, history, biography, autobiography, necrology, obituary, narrative, history, memoir, memorials, annals, saga, tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette, personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions, anecdote, ana, trait, work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press, fairy tale, nursery tale, fable, parable, apologue, dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator, raconteur, historian, biographer, fabulist, novelist, descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn, historic, traditional, traditionary, legendary, anecdotic, storied, described, furor scribendi.

Untruth

N untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper, jhuth, forgery, fabrication, invention, misstatement, misrepresentation, perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi, exaggeration, invention, fabrication, fiction, fable, nursery tale, romance, absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement, thing devised by the enemy, canard, shave, sell, hum, traveler's tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake, claptrap, press agent's yarn, puff, puffery (exaggeration), myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce, irony, half truth, white lie, pious fraud, mental reservation, pretense, pretext, false plea, subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe, sham, profession, empty words, Judas kiss, disguise, untrue, false, phony, trumped up, void of foundation, without- foundation, fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths, unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged, fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious, elusory, illusory, ironical, soi-disant, se non e vero e ben trovato, where none is meant that meets the ear.

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