parable
English Thesaurus
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) |
2. (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | story, |
| definition | : | a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events (noun.communication) |
| domain category | : | new testament, |
| definition | : | the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible (noun.communication) |
3. a short moral story (often with animal characters) (noun.communication)
| derivation | : | fabulist, |
| definition | : | a person who tells or invents fables (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | allegoric, allegorical, |
| definition | : | used in or characteristic of or containing allegory (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | fabulist, |
| definition | : | a person who tells or invents fables (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | allegoric, allegorical, |
| definition | : | used in or characteristic of or containing allegory (adj.all) |
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