FABULIST

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A person who tells or invents fables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fabulist" is a kind of...):

narrator; storyteller; teller (someone who tells a story)

Instance hyponyms:

Aesop (Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC))

Derivation:

fable (a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events)

fable (a short moral story (often with animal characters))

fable (a deliberately false or improbable account)