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# veritable

«veritable» in Mova's school dictionary: **real, true, and worthy of the name, often used to praise…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (no comparative)

### meaning for a pupil

Veritable means real, true, and worthy of the name, often used to praise or to show surprise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veritable/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, to say that something is a true example of a thing, often with surprise or delight

### examples

- The Irishman had never seen any of this fruit before, and he at once concluded that he had discovered a veritable mare's nest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veritable/#x1)
- Thus Babrias is the earliest and most reliable collector of veritable Æsopian Fables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veritable/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «veritable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veritable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.