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Definition of Allegory

1. Noun. A short moral story (often with animal characters).

2. Noun. A visible symbol representing an abstract idea.

3. Noun. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor.

Definition of Allegory

1. n. A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

Definition of Allegory

1. Noun. The representation of abstract principles by characters or figures. ¹

2. Noun. A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation. ¹

3. Noun. A symbolic representation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Allegory

1. a story presenting a moral principle [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegory

allegorise allegorised allegoriser allegorises allegorising allegorist allegorists allegorization allegorizations allegorize

allegorized allegorizer allegorizers allegorizes allegorizing allegory (current term) allegretto allegrettos allegrissimo allegro

allegro con spirito allegro ma non troppo allegro non troppo allegros allel allele alleles allelic allelic exclusion allelic gene

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