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allegoryal‧le‧go‧ry /ˈæləɡəri $ -ɡɔːri/ noun (plural allegories) [countable, uncountable]   allegoryOrigin: 1300-1400 Latin allegoria, from Greek, from allegorein ‘to speak allegorically’, from allos ‘other’ + agorein ‘to speak publicly’ - "Animal Farm' is an allegory in which the animals represent the Russian people and Farmer Jones the old Tsarist regime.
- The film was a dark, powerful allegory of life in post-war America.
- An allegory may depart from everyday life into a make-believe world.
- As in medieval allegory, multiple layers of meaning correspond to the novel's multiple languages.
- I painted the fire once as an allegory.
- It was like living in an allegory.
- Perhaps the author is being satirical, employing irony, allegory, or ambiguity.
- They look like Brueghel allegories of human suffering.
stories that are intended to teach people something► allegory a story in which the events and characters represent something or someone else from the real world: · "Animal Farm' is an allegory in which the animals represent the Russian people and Farmer Jones the old Tsarist regime.allegory of: · The film was a dark, powerful allegory of life in post-war America. ► parable a short simple story that is used to teach something, especially what is morally right: · Christ used parables to explain moral questions in a way that people could understand.· It is a kind of parable for the eighties -- a lesson about the destructiveness of greed.parable of: · the parable of 'The Prodigal Son' ► fable a story that has a moral message, especially a story in which animals are used to represent people's good and bad behaviour: · The best-known of Aesop's fables is "The Tortoise and the Hare'.· The life of Howard Hughes cannot fail to remind us of the fable of Midas. a story, painting etc in which the events and characters represent ideas or teach a moral lesson—allegorical /ˌæləˈɡɒrɪkəl $ -ˈɡɔːr-/ adjective—allegorically /-kli/ adverb |