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APOLOGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apologue mean? 

APOLOGUE (noun)
  The noun APOLOGUE has 1 sense:

1. a short moral story (often with animal characters)play

  Familiarity information: APOLOGUE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


APOLOGUE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A short moral story (often with animal characters)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

allegory; apologue; fable; parable

Hypernyms ("apologue" 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 "apologue"):

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)


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