Dictionary Entry
allegory
allegory is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
- 2noun
Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.
- 3noun
A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
- 4noun
an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
- 5noun
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- 6noun
a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
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