Simplified Chinese Meaning of allegory

寓言

Other Simplified Chinese words related to 寓言

Definitions and Meaning of allegory in English

Wordnet

allegory (n)

a short moral story (often with animal characters)

a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

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

Webster

allegory (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.

Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.

A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

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寓言

a short moral story (often with animal characters), a visible symbol representing an abstract idea, an expressive style that uses fictional characters and event

寓言,寓言,寓言,故事,神话,叙事,兽类寓言,动物志,传说,道德戏剧

No antonyms found.

allegorizing => 寓意化, allegorizer => 寓意家, allegorized => 寓言化的, allegorize => 寓意化, allegorization => 寓意化,