| NOUN | communication | parable, fable, allegory, apologue | a short / short moral story (often with animal characters) |
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| communication | parable | (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message |
| Sounds | peh'rahbahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | A short / short moral story (often with animal characters). | |
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| Synonyms | fable, allegory, apologue | |
| Instances | Pilgrim's Progress | An allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678 |
| Narrower | Aesop's fables | A collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop |
| Broader | story | A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events |
| Spanish | alegoría, aplogo, apólogo, fábula, parábola | |
| Catalan | al·legoria, apòleg, faula, paràbola | |
| Adjectives | parabolic, parabolical | resembling or expressed by parables |
| Meaning | (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message. | |
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| Example | "the parable of the prodigal son" | |
| Category | New Testament | The collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation |
| Broader | story | A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events |
| Adjectives | parabolic, parabolical | resembling or expressed by parables |
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