apologue
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1. a short moral story (often with animal characters) (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | story, |
| definition | : | a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | aesop's fables, |
| definition | : | a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop (noun.communication) |
| instance hyponym | : | pilgrim's progress, |
| definition | : | an allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678 (noun.communication) |
| derivation | : | fabulist, |
| definition | : | a person who tells or invents fables (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | allegorise, allegorize, |
| definition | : | make into an allegory (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | allegorise, allegorize, |
| definition | : | interpret as an allegory (verb.cognition) |
| derivation | : | fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological, |
| definition | : | based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | allegoric, allegorical, |
| definition | : | used in or characteristic of or containing allegory (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | parabolic, parabolical, |
| definition | : | resembling or expressed by parables (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | fabulist, |
| definition | : | a person who tells or invents fables (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | allegorise, allegorize, |
| definition | : | make into an allegory (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | allegorise, allegorize, |
| definition | : | interpret as an allegory (verb.cognition) |
| derivation | : | fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological, |
| definition | : | based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | allegoric, allegorical, |
| definition | : | used in or characteristic of or containing allegory (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | parabolic, parabolical, |
| definition | : | resembling or expressed by parables (adj.pert) |
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