Apologue

//ˈæpəlɒɡ//

Synonyms for "apologue" (25 found)

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Noun(2 words)
allegoryfable

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Related words (12)

Noun(1 words)
parable

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Translations

24 translations across 12 languages.

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Bashkir

1 entries
  • мәҫәл noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)

Catalan

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  • apòleg noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)

Czech

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  • bajka noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)

French

2 entries
  • apologue noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)
  • apologue noun (rhetoric: use of fable to persuade the audience)

German

2 entries
  • Fabel noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)
  • Lehrfabel noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)

Irish

4 entries
  • apalóg noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)
  • fabhalscéal noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)
  • fáithscéal noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)
  • uirscéal noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)

Italian

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  • apologo noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)

Latin

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  • apologus noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)

Polish

4 entries
  • apolog noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)
  • apolog noun (rhetoric: use of fable to persuade the audience)
  • bajka noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)
  • bajka noun (rhetoric: use of fable to persuade the audience)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • apólogo noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)

Russian

4 entries
  • аполо́г noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)
  • ба́йка noun (rhetoric: use of fable to persuade the audience)
  • ба́сня noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)
  • ба́сня noun (rhetoric: use of fable to persuade the audience)

Spanish

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  • apólogo noun (a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects)

Sample sentences

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"Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can—at least, I shall be amongst gentlefolks, and not with vulgar city people": and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes.

Source: wiktionary

[…] but though the mythic hero may thus be made to figure in a moral apologue, an imagination so little in keeping with his unethic nature jars upon the reader's mind.

Source: wiktionary

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