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Meaning of "fabulate" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FABULATE

fabulate  [ˈfæbjʊˌleɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FABULATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fabulate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb fabulate in English.

WHAT DOES FABULATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of fabulate in the English dictionary

The definition of fabulate in the dictionary is to invent, to fabricate. Other definition of fabulate is to compose fables or stories.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FABULATE

PRESENT

Present
I fabulate
you fabulate
he/she/it fabulates
we fabulate
you fabulate
they fabulate
Present continuous
I am fabulating
you are fabulating
he/she/it is fabulating
we are fabulating
you are fabulating
they are fabulating
Present perfect
I have fabulated
you have fabulated
he/she/it has fabulated
we have fabulated
you have fabulated
they have fabulated
Present perfect continuous
I have been fabulating
you have been fabulating
he/she/it has been fabulating
we have been fabulating
you have been fabulating
they have been fabulating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I fabulated
you fabulated
he/she/it fabulated
we fabulated
you fabulated
they fabulated
Past continuous
I was fabulating
you were fabulating
he/she/it was fabulating
we were fabulating
you were fabulating
they were fabulating
Past perfect
I had fabulated
you had fabulated
he/she/it had fabulated
we had fabulated
you had fabulated
they had fabulated
Past perfect continuous
I had been fabulating
you had been fabulating
he/she/it had been fabulating
we had been fabulating
you had been fabulating
they had been fabulating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will fabulate
you will fabulate
he/she/it will fabulate
we will fabulate
you will fabulate
they will fabulate
Future continuous
I will be fabulating
you will be fabulating
he/she/it will be fabulating
we will be fabulating
you will be fabulating
they will be fabulating
Future perfect
I will have fabulated
you will have fabulated
he/she/it will have fabulated
we will have fabulated
you will have fabulated
they will have fabulated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been fabulating
you will have been fabulating
he/she/it will have been fabulating
we will have been fabulating
you will have been fabulating
they will have been fabulating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would fabulate
you would fabulate
he/she/it would fabulate
we would fabulate
you would fabulate
they would fabulate
Conditional continuous
I would be fabulating
you would be fabulating
he/she/it would be fabulating
we would be fabulating
you would be fabulating
they would be fabulating
Conditional perfect
I would have fabulate
you would have fabulate
he/she/it would have fabulate
we would have fabulate
you would have fabulate
they would have fabulate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been fabulating
you would have been fabulating
he/she/it would have been fabulating
we would have been fabulating
you would have been fabulating
they would have been fabulating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you fabulate
we let´s fabulate
you fabulate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to fabulate
Past participle
fabulated
Present Participle
fabulating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FABULATE


accumulate
əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt
calculate
ˈkælkjʊˌleɪt
circulate
ˈsɜːkjʊˌleɪt
coagulate
kəʊˈæɡjʊˌleɪt
congratulate
kənˈɡrætjʊˌleɪt
cumulate
ˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt
ejaculate
ɪˈdʒækjʊˌleɪt
emulate
ˈɛmjʊˌleɪt
formulate
ˈfɔːmjʊˌleɪt
insulate
ˈɪnsjʊˌleɪt
manipulate
məˈnɪpjʊˌleɪt
modulate
ˈmɒdjʊˌleɪt
populate
ˈpɒpjʊˌleɪt
postulate
ˈpɒstjʊˌleɪt
reformulate
riːˈfɔːmjʊˌleɪt
regulate
ˈrɛɡjʊˌleɪt
simulate
ˈsɪmjʊˌleɪt
speculate
ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪt
stimulate
ˈstɪmjʊˌleɪt
stipulate
ˈstɪpjʊˌleɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FABULATE

fabricant
fabricate
fabricated
fabrication
fabricative
fabricator
fabricking
Fabrikoid
Fabry
fabular
fabulator
fabulise
fabulist
fabulistic
fabulize
fabulosity
fabulous
fabulously
fabulousness
faburden

WORDS THAT END LIKE FABULATE

absquatulate
articulate
chocolate
consulate
copulate
demodulate
depopulate
deregulate
emasculate
geniculate
immaculate
matriculate
ovulate
particulate
recalculate
recirculate
repopulate
reticulate
triangulate
undulate
ungulate

Synonyms and antonyms of fabulate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fabulate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FABULATE

Find out the translation of fabulate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fabulate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fabulate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

fabulate
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fabular
570 millions of speakers

English

fabulate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

fabulate
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

fabulate
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

fabulate
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fabulate
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

fabulate
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fabulate
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengagumkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fabulate
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

fabulate
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

fabulate
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fabulate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

fabulate
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

fabulate
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कल्पना करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fabulate
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fabulate
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fabulate
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

fabulate
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fabulate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

fabulate
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fabulate
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fabulate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fabulate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fabulate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FABULATE»

The term «fabulate» is barely ever used and occupies the 200.730 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FABULATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fabulate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fabulate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fabulate

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FABULATE»

Discover the use of fabulate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fabulate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, ...
Coined in 1934 by C. W. von Sydow, the term fabulate was intended as a contrast to memorate, a narrative reflecting an individual's contact with the supernatural. Fabulates, Sydow said, may have some elements based in experience, “yet they  ...
Thomas A. Green, 1997
2
Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, ...
Fabulate A migratory legend that does not reflect personal experience but instead is told principally for entertainment. Coined in 1934 by C. W. von Sydow, the term fabulate was intended as a contrast to memorate, a narrative reflecting an ...
Charlie T. McCormick, Kim Kennedy White, 2011
3
Reading Irish-American Fiction: The Hyphenated Self
MacLennan distinguishes between two types of stories: the memorate and the fabulate. He defines the memorate as “a short, single-episode narrative recalling something that is claimed to have happened personally to someone”; while the ...
Margaret Hallissy, 2006
4
Malady of Meditation: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Illness ...
Developing a cogent point first made by Lauri Honko ("tradition is already present in the experience"),240 however, the folklorist Linda Degh has more recently shown that the rigid distinction between memorate and fabulate established by von ...
Juhn Young Ahn, 2007
5
Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media
Such an attitude goes back at least as far as Swedish folklorist C.W. von Sydow, who coined the term "fabulate" in 1934 to refer to narratives that contained unbelievable elements. The events of the fabulate, he said, "could not have actually ...
Bill Ellis
6
Augustine's Confessions: Philosophy in Autobiography
It can be pride which refuses to perceive some humiliating truth (including the fact that we are in error), and it can also be the impulse to fabulate or to be absorbed in others' fables. Presumably all three of these impulses often cooperate: in ...
Marsh Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy Emeritus William E Mann, William E. Mann, 2014
7
Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian ...
The fabulate, which also typically involves figures of folk belief, is not based on immediate personal experience, and often does not mention specific individuals or places. Both genres are told and accepted as true (Sydow 1948: 73-77).
Andreas Johns, 2004
8
Russian Folk Belief
Once the plot becomes more complex (through, say, the addition of a second or third episode) or the events and personages become more generalized, the narrative tends to become a fabulate (for example, Narratives 41, 42, 53, 61), though ...
Linda J. Ivanits, 1989
9
Existence, Historical Fabulation, Destiny
To disentangle all this animates the passions of the literary genius. The focus of this collection is to isolate the main arteries running through the intermingled forces prompting our quest to endow life with meaning.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 2009
10
Folklore Forum
In the narrower meaning, the concept can even compare with von Sydow' s most general legend category, the witness legend, which he chose to replace with the designation fabulate. I quote here a section from von Sydow 's text that has ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FABULATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fabulate is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cabinet forecast for GDP growth in 2016 by 2% with 9% inflation …
I did not fabulate [sic] this," she said, while responding in the parliament to criticism of their alleged unrealistic forecast. Jaresko stressed she ... «NRCU - Ukrainian Radio, Jun 15»
2
Rushes to judgment: The top 10 assassination movies
Joe McCarthy's reference to a legendary list of Communists inside the U.S. government that only he could "read" (or fabulate). The Manchurian ... «People's World, Apr 15»
3
William Pope.L
It's a perambulation where people witness, encounter, fabulate a world within a world. And that's the rub I love to negotiate. This drive we have ... «Artforum, Feb 15»
4
Paseo's closure leaves Seattle emotionally compromised
Did I fabulate this entire story so no one would show up on Tuesday and I could quickly get my Caribbean Roast? It's hard to say. This clearly ... «Capitol Hill Times, Nov 14»
5
'3 Christs,' About Milton Rokeach's Psychological Study
Much of the play exists in a kind of stasis, as the Christs (Donald Warfield, Arthur Aulisi and Daryl Lathon) shuffle and twitch and fabulate. «New York Times, Sep 14»
6
Author Gabriel García Márquez dies
... can at once be classical and familiar, opalescent and pure, able to praise and curse, laugh and cry, fabulate and sing and when called upon, ... «USA TODAY, Apr 14»
7
The Liar at Scripps Ranch Theatre
A compulsive liar, the “Master of the air-tight alibi” can't help but “fabulate.” Even “when someone's got a juicy tale to dish,/I have to add some ... «San Diego Reader, Apr 14»
8
Howard Goldenberg at Limmud Fest
I would fabricate, fabulate, escape. Instead I wrote of heartache and suffering, of rescue and caring, of human bonds and human bondage, ... «Galus Australis, Oct 13»
9
The Dirty Halo: On Sarah Bernhardt
... Byron to Kaspar Hauser—to fabulate herself and by the same stroke bring a new jolt of excitement to a slightly moribund theatrical tradition. «The Nation., Nov 10»
10
Slide Show: Fall Books 2010
... currents of the Romantic to fabulate herself and by the same stroke bring a new jolt of excitement to a slightly moribund theatrical tradition. «The Nation., Nov 10»

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