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Apologue

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A moral fable, especially one having animals or inanimate objects as characters.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable

n. use of fable to persuade the audience

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A story or relation of fictitious events intended to convey useful truths; a moral fable; an allegory.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a short moral story (often with animal characters)

Word Usage

"Though he acknowledges the delicacy of criticizing the Soviet regime, Eliot's political objection was that the only good guy in Orwell's allegory seemed to be Trotsky, and he didn't like Trotsky: Now I think my own dissatisfaction with this apologue is that the effect is simply one of negation."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

story

Hyponym

pilgrim's progress aesop's fables

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

fable

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

fabliaux sensei apter gurnard religion cricket-match moralising allegory quizzing faubourg