allegory
31Allegory of Gluttony and Lust — Infobox Painting title=Allegory of Gluttony and Lust artist=Hieronymus Bosch year=1490 1500 type= height= width= museum= Allegory of Gluttony and Lust is a Hieronymus Bosch painting made sometime between 1490 and 1500. It is currently in the Yale …
32allegory — noun (plural ries) Etymology: Middle English allegorie, from Latin allegoria, from Greek allēgoria, from allēgorein to speak figuratively, from allos other + ēgorein to speak publicly, from agora assembly more at else, agora Date: 14th century …
33allegory — noun a) The representation of abstract principles by characters or figures. b) A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation …
34allegory — Synonyms and related words: Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allusion, analogy, apologue, arcane meaning, assumption, balancing, bedtime story, charactery, cipher, coloration, comparative anatomy, comparative degree,… …
35ALLEGORY — a figurative mode of representation, in which a subject of a higher spiritual order is described in terms of that of a lower which resembles it in properties and circumstances, the principal subject being so kept out of view that we are left… …
36allegory — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. parable, fable. See figurative. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. moral story, allegorical representation, parable, fable; see story . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. parable, fable, moral, myth, story, tale …
37allegory — al|le|go|ry [ˈælıgəri US go:ri] n plural allegories [U and C] [Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: allegoria, from Greek, from allegorein to speak allegorically , from allos other + agorein to speak publicly ] a story, painting etc in which the… …
38allegory — al|le|go|ry [ æləgəri ] noun count or uncount a story, play, poem, or picture in which the events and characters are used as symbols in order to express a moral, religious, or political idea a. uncount in literature, the use of events and… …
39ALLEGORY — a sustained or prolonged metaphor. The use of language to convey a deeper and different MEANING from that which appears on the surface …
40allegory — al·le·go·ry || ælɪgÉ™rɪ n. representation of abstract or moral concepts in art or literature by means of concrete things or events; symbolic narrative, fable, parable, metaphor, analogy …
