Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: allegory
IPA transcription: ['æləɡ,ɔɹi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fable, parable, allegory, apologue
    Meaning: a short moral story (often with animal characters)
Usage examples
  • "It sums up my whole allegory," said the professor.
  • It is also a perfect allegory of what happens to rationalists like yourself.
  • At first I was inclined to believe that this history of a woman on whom, clothed in the majesty of her almost endless years, the shadow of Eternity itself lay like the dark wing of Night, was some gigantic allegory of which I could not catch the meaning.