'Allegory' definitions:
Definition of 'allegory'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
A visible symbol representing an abstract idea [syn: emblem, allegory]
noun
An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
Definition of 'Allegory'
From: Easton
- Allegory used only in Gal. 4:24, where the apostle refers to the history of Isaac the free-born, and Ishmael the slave-born, and makes use of it allegorically.
- Every parable is an allegory. Nathan (2 Sam. 12:1-4) addresses David in an allegorical narrative. In the eightieth Psalm there is a beautiful allegory: "Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt," etc. In Eccl. 12:2-6, there is a striking allegorical description of old age.
Synonyms of 'allegory'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adventure story,
- allusion,
- analogy,
- apologue,
- arcane meaning,
- assumption,
- balancing,
- bedtime story,
- charactery,
- cipher,
- coloration,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- connotation,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conventional symbol,
- correlation,
- detective story,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- emblem,
- fable,
- fabliau,
- fairy tale,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figuration,
- folk story,
- folktale,
- gest,
- ghost story,
- hint,
- horse opera,
- iconology,
- ideogram,
- implication,
- implied meaning,
- import,
- inference,
- innuendo,
- intimation,
- ironic suggestion,
- legend,
- likening,
- logogram,
- logotype,
- love knot,
- love story,
- Marchen,
- matching,
- meaning,
- metaphor,
- metaphorical sense,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- myth,
- mythology,
- mythos,
- nuance,
- nursery tale,
- occult meaning,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- overtone,
- parable,
- parallelism,
- pictogram,
- presumption,
- presupposition,
- proportion,
- relation,
- romance,
- science fiction,
- shocker,
- simile,
- similitude,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- subsense,
- subsidiary sense,
- suggestion,
- supposition,
- suspense story,
- symbol,
- symbolic system,
- symbolism,
- symbolization,
- symbology,
- thriller,
- tinge,
- token,
- totem,
- totem pole,
- touch,
- trope of comparison,
- type,
- typification,
- undercurrent,
- undermeaning,
- undertone,
- weighing,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- whodunit,
- work of fiction