fabled

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fa·bled /ˈfeɪbəld/ adjectiveadj literary

FAMOUSfamous and often mentioned in traditional stories 寓言[传奇]中著名的；寓言[传奇]中的 SYN legendary

the fabled 'Fountain of Youth'

传说中的“青春泉”

Examples from the Corpus

fabled• Unlike most other fabled beasts it preferred to scavenge carrion from the forest floor rather than kill for fresh meat.• Not much of that fabled but very real gold has survived.• Anita the fabled feminist has a complaint she want you all to hear.• He sits forlorn on horse-munched hay while his thoughts run on distant, fabled gold.• Only in later centuries, when Constant Drachenfels' daring knew no bounds, did the famed, fabled horrors begin.• It was a fabled street, but for him it had been forbidden territory.• Statues of fabled warriors stood in the city square.

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BNC: 23360 COCA: 13925

fabled

Imaginary and not real: imaginary, hypothetical, false...