ALLEGORY
\ˈalɪɡəɹˌi], \ˈalɪɡəɹˌi], \ˈa_l_ɪ_ɡ_ə_ɹ_ˌi]\
Definitions of ALLEGORY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
By Noah Webster.
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A manner of treating a subject by the use of other terms or circumstances than the real ones; representation in a story of one thing under the image or likeness of another; a narrative in which the meaning of something is conveyed symbolically; as, Pilgrim's Progress is a great allegory.
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Allegorist.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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A figurative speech or representation.
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Allegoric and allegorical.
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Allegorize.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A figurative manner of speaking or writing, in which a subject of a higher spiritual order is described in terms of that of a lower which resembles it in its properties and circumstances, the principal subject being so kept out of view that we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker from the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject. A figurative representation, in which something else is intended than what is actually exhibited.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Figurative speech; language that has another meaning than the literal one; the Jews compared to a vine in the 80th Psalm is an allegory.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
