APOLOGUE

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Meaning:

A short moral story (often with animal characters)

Synonyms:

allegory; apologue; fable; parable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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)