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allegory   (TTS Sound)

The noun allegory has 3 senses

• fable, parable, allegory, apologue -- (a short moral story (often with animal characters))


• emblem, allegory -- (a visible symbol representing an abstract idea)


• allegory -- (an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor)