allegory
Meaning of allegory
noun
- The representation of abstract principles by characters or figures.
- A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.
- A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one.
- A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalisation of that category.
Information about allegory
- It is a name.
- The plural form of allegory is: allegories.
- Languages in which allegory is used:
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Hyphenation of allegory
al-le-gory
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- allegory is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
allegory synonyms
Meaning fable:
Meaning emblem:
Translation of allegory
Words that rhyme with allegory
gory, matagory, phantasmagory, Gregory, beaugregory, category, gregory, subcategory, tautegory, Greggory, amphigory
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