Definition of "fabulate" in English

verb

1. (intransitive) To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.

   • The objects remain those of male fantasies, but from the start Maxine associates the ability to fantasize or fabulate with women and with Cantonese: […]
   • It is only this posture that permits him to discharge his function as a chief: to fabulate and to summon up the missing people.

2. (transitive, archaic) To relate as or in the manner of a fable.

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To tell fables, to narrate with fables.

noun

1. A folk story that is not entirely believable.

2. (specifically) A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.