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PARABLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Synonyms:
allegory; apologue; fable; parable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("parable" is a kind of...):
story (a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parable"):
Aesop's fables (a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop)
Instance hyponyms:
Pilgrim's Progress (an allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678)
Derivation:
parabolic; parabolical (resembling or expressed by parables)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
Example:
the parable of the prodigal son
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("parable" is a kind of...):
story (a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events)
Domain category:
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
Derivation:
parabolic; parabolical (resembling or expressed by parables)
