ба́йка — meaning in English
bayka
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English meaning
- apologue noun A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.
- baize noun A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.
- fable noun A short story, often with animal characters, written to teach a moral lesson.
- tale noun A story, especially one that is told aloud and may be fictional or exaggerated.
- yarn noun Spun fibre thread used for knitting, weaving, or making rope.
Senses
ба́йка is used for these senses in English:
- apologue (rhetoric) The use of fable to persuade the audience.
- baize A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.
- fable A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
- fable Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
- fable Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
- fairy tale A folktale or literary story featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters.
- tale A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
- tall tale (idiomatic) A tale or story which is fantastic and greatly exaggerated; also, an account of questionable veracity; a lie, an untruth.
apologue — full definition
- noun A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.
- noun The use of fable to persuade the audience.
baize — full definition
- noun A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.
- noun A coarse woolen material with a long nap; usually dyed in plain colors.