English-Italian translations for fairy tale

• favola
  Si tratta di una favola; la realtà è diversa. This is the fairy tale; the reality is somewhat different.
  Esistono, oppure ci troviamo nella favola del nuovo vestito dell'imperatore, dei fratelli Grimm? Are there any such limits, or are we in that Grimm's fairy tale, the Emperor's New Clothes?
  Ci stiamo comportando proprio come il cagnolino e il gattino della favola del famoso scrittore ceco Karel Čapek. We are acting in this just like the puppy and the kitten in the fairy tale by the famous Czech writer, Karel Čapek.
• fiaba
  Quando sarò in pensione, voglio scrivere un romanzo (o magari una fiaba) su quest'argomento per render loro giustizia. After I retire I propose to write a novel about this to do them real justice - maybe a fairy tale, who knows!
• fiaba ; favola
• fola

Definition of fairy tale

• A folktale featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters
• A story presented as true that is not believable

Examples

• I used to love reading fairy tales when I was a child.
• Hes telling us another fairy tale about how great the software will be.

Related words

• fairy tale character
• fairy tale figure
• fairytale
• fairy-tale
• fairytale figure
• fairytale film
• fairytale movie
• book of fairytales