- fabrication, fiction, fable - a deliberately false or improbable account
--1 is a kind of falsehood, falsity, untruth, false statement
--1 has particulars: canard - fable, parable, allegory, apologue - a short moral story (often with animal characters)
--2 is a kind of story
--2 has particulars: Aesop's fables; Pilgrim's Progress - legend, fable - a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
--3 is a kind of story
--3 has particulars: Arthurian legend