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# allusion

«allusion» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a short mention of a story, person or event that points…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (allusions)

### meaning for a pupil

An allusion is a short mention of a story, person or event that points to it without explaining it fully: «a joke with an allusion to the giant». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allusion/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The rabbis called a hint to a law in the text a "remez", and they looked for such allusions in the wording of the Torah. In the primary lessons: in reading lessons, a hint to another story or to history that the reader must spot, such as «an allusion to Greek myth»

### examples

- The poem makes an allusion to a famous king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allusion/#x1)
- Did you spot the allusion to the three little pigs? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allusion/#x2)
- The early Greek poets make only scanty allusions to Erebus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allusion/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «allusion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allusion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.