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allegory:
- alegoría
Wiktionary:
- allegory → alegoría
- allegory → símbolo, alegoría

English

Detailed Translations for allegory from English to Spanish

allegory:

allegory [the ~] nomen

the allegory
la alegoría
- alegoría [la ~] nomen

Translation Matrix for allegory:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
alegoría	allegory
-	apologue; emblem; fable; parable

Related Words for "allegory":

allegories

Synonyms for "allegory":

fable; parable; apologue; story
emblem; symbol; symbolization; symbolisation; symbolic representation
expressive style; style

Related Definitions for "allegory":

an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor¹
a short moral story (often with animal characters)¹
a visible symbol representing an abstract idea¹

Wiktionary Translations for allegory:

allegory

noun

the representation of abstract principles
- allegory → alegoría
communication using such representation
- allegory → alegoría
symbolic representation
- allegory → alegoría

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• allegory	→ símbolo	↔ Sinnbild — konventionalisierte bildliche Darstellung eines abstrakten Sachverhalts
• allegory	→ alegoría	↔ Allegorie — Literatur, Rhetorik: personifizierende oder gegenständliche Darstellung eines abstrakten Sachverhaltes
• allegory	→ alegoría	↔ allégorie — représentation concret et imagée par des éléments descriptifs d’une idée abstraite.

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