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# allegory

«allegory» in Mova's school dictionary: **a story in which people, animals or things stand for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (allegory, allegories)

### meaning for a pupil

An allegory is a story in which people, animals or things stand for ideas, to teach a lesson about life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allegory/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fables and moral tales, a story where a wolf or a tortoise stands for a lesson like greed or patience

### examples

- The tale is an allegory about honesty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allegory/#x1)
- In the allegory, the wolf stands for greed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allegory/#x2)
- This fable is one of the earliest moral allegories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allegory/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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