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A0370000 (ăp′ə-lôg′, -lŏg′)n. A moral fable, especially one having animals or inanimate objects as characters.

[French, from Latin apologus, from Greek apologos : apo-, apo- + logos, speech; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]

apologue

(ˈæpəˌlɒɡ) n (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an allegory or moral fable[C17: from Latin, from Greek apologos]

ap•o•logue

(ˈæp əˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg)

n. an allegorical fable typically containing a moral. [1545–55; (< Middle French) < Latin apologus < Greek apólogos fable. See apo-, -logue] ap′o•log`al, adj.

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apologue - a short moral story (often with animal characters)allegory, parable, fablestory - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"Aesop's fables - a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop

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in ancient Greek and Oriental literature, a brief (as compared to the fable) morally instructive work constructed on the allegorical depiction of animals or plants.

A famous group of apologues is to be found in the collection of Indian tales the Panchatantra, written in Sanskrit and dating from the third century. In Arabic and Persian adaptions this work is known as Kalila and Dimna. Apologues occur in Russian poetry of the mid-18th and early 19th centuries—for example, in the works of I. I. Dmitriev.

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noun a short moral story (often with animal characters)

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