Apologue

/ˈæpəlɒɡ/

Synonyms for "apologue" (25 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Noun(3 words)
fairy talefantasy

Strong matches (8)

fictionfolktalegestghost storyhorse operalegendlove story
Noun(1 words)
moral tale

Related words (12)

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fablemoral parablemoral taleparableparabolic tale

Collocations

6 entries
animal fabledidactic narrativefable formmoral taleparable styleshort fable

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

"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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