APOLOGUE Synonyms
There are 11 hypernyms of the word apologue. (close relations)
Definition of APOLOGUE
Best Alternative Words for APOLOGUE
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allegory | nounn | |||||||
noun • a short moral story (often with animal characters) • a visible symbol representing an abstract idea • an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor | ||||||||
fable | nounn | |||||||
noun • a deliberately false or improbable account • a short moral story (often with animal characters) • a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events | ||||||||
parable | nounn | |||||||
noun • a short moral story (often with animal characters) • (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message | ||||||||
anecdote | nounn | |||||||
noun • short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) | ||||||||
story | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program • a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events • a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale • a record or narrative description of past events • a short account of the news • a trivial lie | ||||||||
tale | nounn | |||||||
noun • a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program • a trivial lie |