"allegory" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈæl.ɪˌɡɔː.ɹi/ [UK], /ˈæl.əˌɡɔɹ.i/ [US] Audio: en-us-allegory.ogg Forms: allegories [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English allegorie, from Old French allegorie, from Latin allēgoria, from Ancient Greek ἀλληγορία (allēgoría), from ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “I speak”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|allegorie}} Middle English allegorie, {{der|en|fro|allegorie}} Old French allegorie, {{der|en|la|allēgoria}} Latin allēgoria, {{der|en|grc|ἀλληγορία}} Ancient Greek ἀλληγορία (allēgoría) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} allegory (countable and uncountable, plural allegories)
  1. (rhetoric) A narrative in which a character, place, or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences. Tags: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Categories (topical): Rhetoric
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  2. A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Rhetoric Translations (communication using such representation): ἀλληγορία (allēgoría) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), al·legoria [feminine] (Catalan), 寓言 (yùyán) (Chinese Mandarin), 諷喻 (Chinese Mandarin), 讽喻 (fěngyù) (Chinese Mandarin), vertauskuva (Finnish), allegoria (Finnish), alegoría [feminine] (Galician), αλληγορία (alligoría) [feminine] (Greek), allegoria [feminine] (Italian), allegori [masculine] (Norwegian), parábola (Portuguese), samhla [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), alegoría [feminine] (Spanish), allegori (Swedish)
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  3. A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (symbolic representation): си́мвол (símvol) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ембле́ма (embléma) [feminine] (Bulgarian), al·legoria [feminine] (Catalan), 寓意 (yùyì) (Chinese Mandarin), jinotaj [masculine] (Czech), alegorie [feminine] (Czech), vertauskuva (Finnish), allegoria (Finnish), allégorie [feminine] (French), alegoría [feminine] (Galician), Allegorie [feminine] (German), Sinnbild [neuter] (German), αλληγορία (alligoría) [feminine] (Greek), allegoria [feminine] (Italian), allegori [masculine] (Norwegian), alegoria [feminine] (Polish), alegoria [feminine] (Portuguese), samhla [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), alegoría [feminine] (Spanish), allegori (Swedish) Translations (the representation of abstract principles): ἀλληγορία (allēgoría) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), تَمْثِيل (tamṯīl) [masculine] (Arabic), այլաբանություն (aylabanutʻyun) (Armenian), kinayə (Azerbaijani), təmsil (Azerbaijani), алего́рыя (aljehóryja) [feminine] (Belarusian), алего́рия (alegórija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), al·legoria [feminine] (Catalan), 寓言 (yùyán) (Chinese Mandarin), 諷喻 (Chinese Mandarin), 讽喻 (fěngyù) (Chinese Mandarin), 託寓 (Chinese Mandarin), 托寓 (tuōyù) (Chinese Mandarin), jinotaj [masculine] (Czech), alegorie [feminine] (Czech), alegorio (Esperanto), vertauskuva (Finnish), allegoria (Finnish), allégorie [feminine] (French), alegoría [feminine] (Galician), ალეგორია (alegoria) (Georgian), Allegorie [feminine] (German), Sinnbild [neuter] (German), αλληγορία (alligoría) [feminine] (Greek), allegória (Hungarian), alegori (Indonesian), fáthchiall [feminine] (Irish), allegoria [feminine] (Italian), アレゴリー (aregorī) (Japanese), 寓話 (gūwa) (alt: ぐうわ) (Japanese), 알레고리 (allegori) (Korean), 우화 (uhwa) (Korean), alegorija [feminine] (Lithuanian), alegori (Malay), kōrero tairitenga (Maori), allegori [masculine] (Norwegian), alegoria [feminine] (Polish), alegoria [feminine] (Portuguese), аллего́рия (allegórija) [feminine] (Russian), иносказа́ние (inoskazánije) [neuter] (Russian), samhla [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), alegoría [feminine] (Spanish), allegori (Swedish), sinnebild [common-gender] (Swedish), talinhaga (Tagalog), อุปมานิทัศน์ (ùp-bpà-maa-ní-tát) (Thai), алего́рія (alehórija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), lalegor (Volapük)
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  4. (mathematics, category theory) A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalisation of that category. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Category theory, Mathematics
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: allegoric, allegorical, allegorically, allegorise, allegorism, allegorist, allegoristic, allegorization Related terms: agora, agoraphobia, category, metaphor

Inflected forms

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      "word": "อุปมานิทัศน์"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "alehórija",
      "sense": "the representation of abstract principles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "алего́рія"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "the representation of abstract principles",
      "word": "lalegor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "al·legoria"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yùyán",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "word": "寓言"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "word": "諷喻"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fěngyù",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "word": "讽喻"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "word": "vertauskuva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "word": "allegoria"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alegoría"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "alligoría",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αλληγορία"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "allēgoría",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ἀλληγορία"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "allegoria"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "allegori"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "word": "parábola"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "samhla"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alegoría"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "communication using such representation",
      "word": "allegori"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "símvol",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "си́мвол"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "embléma",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ембле́ма"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "al·legoria"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yùyì",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "word": "寓意"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jinotaj"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alegorie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "word": "vertauskuva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "word": "allegoria"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "allégorie"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alegoría"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Allegorie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Sinnbild"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "alligoría",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αλληγορία"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "allegoria"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "allegori"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alegoria"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alegoria"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "samhla"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alegoría"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "symbolic representation",
      "word": "allegori"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Allegory (category theory)",
    "allegory"
  ],
  "word": "allegory"
}

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