Definition of allegory in English:

allegory

nounPlural allegories ˈalɪɡ(ə)riˈæləˌɡɔri

1A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
（尤指道德或政治说教的）寓言；讽喻诗；讽喻画
Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey
《天路历程》是一个讲述精神历程的寓言。
Example sentencesExamples
- Panofsky argued that to understand any piece of Renaissance art it was necessary to understand its subject matter: images, stories, and allegories.
- It can, and has, also been interpreted as an allegory of the political, economic and social adventures of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
- It is, for example, perfectly possible to read the poem as an allegory not of war but of the ‘war’ between the sexes.
- My university education had transformed me into a theistic evolutionist, one who believed that God intended the Genesis account of creation to be an allegory picturing the total evolution of the cosmos.
- John Ford's classic western, starring John Wayne, is a political allegory about how ‘civilisation’ managed to conquer America's Wild West.
- No one would want to be so foolish as to suggest that this poem is an allegory of trouble in the Church.
- Lyly's play uses the myth to present a political allegory of Philip of Spain, by giving Midas and his courtiers what was considered by a contemporary English audience to be a specifically Spanish characteristic: the desire for gold.
- Throw Away Kids was three interwoven stories presenting as an allegory of the experience of Native people the world over.
- Later works, like The Croquet Player, are fables or political allegories.
- Some feminist critics have interpreted Frankenstein as an allegory of childbirth which, in this case, is the product of solitary male propagation, being the proverbial scientist's brain child.
- If you had sat through that entire game, and had experienced something of that season, you would have known that this home run was a great moment, yes, but one in a long story - not an allegory nor morality tale.
- A story is an allegory of real life; the characters are allegories of real people, since you only take the important parts of their lives.
- At a news conference, Lucas acknowledged the political allegories of the saga, which could have contemporary resonance although he wrote it at the time of the Nixon era.
- Lewis repeatedly denied that the Narnia stories were allegories.
- The interactions between the characters in Springtime obviously form a political allegory, but rarely have I seen allegorical conceits that were as likeable as these characters are.
- For those who don't know, the story is a futuristic allegory of the Arab Revolt familiar to most through the film Lawrence of Arabia.
- I've been thinking about Kafka's ‘Metamorphosis’, a story which is an allegory about how we view those who are chronically ill.
- My first response upon rereading the book, largely thanks to my current preoccupations, was to interpret the story as an allegory about writing fiction.
- I believe that categorizing this story as an allegory is more appropriate than doing so as a myth because a myth is defined as explaining natural phenomenon.
- You could read the relationship as a love story or an allegory of two sides struggling to come together - East and West, Christian and Muslim, the have and the have-not - against the creeping influence of negativity.
Synonyms
parable, analogy, metaphor, symbol, emblem
story, tale, myth, legend, saga, fable, apologue
1. 1.1 A symbol.
  象征
  Example sentencesExamples
  Miller had been absent from the stage since The Crucible, in which he used the Salem witch trials as allegory for McCarthyism.
  A thoughtfully chosen group of paintings ranging from personal allegories to landscapes to portraits simultaneously revealed Beckmann's individuality and his debt to both the art of the past and of his own day.
  These are not candidates who represent ideas and programs so much as allegories representing human weaknesses and failings.
  Wajda's sewer rats swarmed onwards as allegory: they eventually emerged not from a Warsaw manhole, but a manhole on Wall Street.
  Your dreams are full of symbols and allegories.
  Simply put, Burns reads pictures as allegories of class interest and identity.
  He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world.
  And it's a story that expects us to take the superhero at face value; this boy-spider is not an allegory for anything, not a symbol for a class of people or culture.
  But then comes the coded ending, and you realize that Bagger is a symbol, an allegory, a pillar of life, death and whatever else.
  Synonyms
  emblem, token, sign, representation, figure, image, type

Derivatives

allegorist

noun ˈalɪɡərɪstˈæləˌɡɔrəst

The Christian allegorists, recharging the remaindered Pagan symbols, hope to exorcise the residual energies of the pagan world.
Example sentencesExamples
- His narratives usually lend themselves to rich allegorical readings, and Tsui can be a very skilful allegorist when he wants to be.
- He begins by noting that the Renaissance humanists fell into two groups: the philologists who believed that value lay in the original meaning of words, and the allegorists for whom truths lay beneath the veil of art.
- Kafka wrongly gets posited as a political or humanitarian allegorist, when his stories are rather personal series of images and processes that cannot be conclusively unlocked.
- Allegorical imagery is appropriated imagery; the allegorist does not invent images but confiscates them.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French allegorie, via Latin from Greek allēgoria, from allos 'other' + -agoria 'speaking'.

An allegory is basically speaking about one thing in terms of another, and comes from Greek allos ‘other’ and -agoria ‘speaking’.

Definition of allegory in US English:

allegory

nounˈaləˌɡôrēˈæləˌɡɔri

1A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
（尤指道德或政治说教的）寓言；讽喻诗；讽喻画
Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey
《天路历程》是一个讲述精神历程的寓言。
Example sentencesExamples
- It can, and has, also been interpreted as an allegory of the political, economic and social adventures of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
- My university education had transformed me into a theistic evolutionist, one who believed that God intended the Genesis account of creation to be an allegory picturing the total evolution of the cosmos.
- Some feminist critics have interpreted Frankenstein as an allegory of childbirth which, in this case, is the product of solitary male propagation, being the proverbial scientist's brain child.
- It is, for example, perfectly possible to read the poem as an allegory not of war but of the ‘war’ between the sexes.
- Panofsky argued that to understand any piece of Renaissance art it was necessary to understand its subject matter: images, stories, and allegories.
- At a news conference, Lucas acknowledged the political allegories of the saga, which could have contemporary resonance although he wrote it at the time of the Nixon era.
- A story is an allegory of real life; the characters are allegories of real people, since you only take the important parts of their lives.
- I've been thinking about Kafka's ‘Metamorphosis’, a story which is an allegory about how we view those who are chronically ill.
- Lewis repeatedly denied that the Narnia stories were allegories.
- The interactions between the characters in Springtime obviously form a political allegory, but rarely have I seen allegorical conceits that were as likeable as these characters are.
- You could read the relationship as a love story or an allegory of two sides struggling to come together - East and West, Christian and Muslim, the have and the have-not - against the creeping influence of negativity.
- If you had sat through that entire game, and had experienced something of that season, you would have known that this home run was a great moment, yes, but one in a long story - not an allegory nor morality tale.
- Throw Away Kids was three interwoven stories presenting as an allegory of the experience of Native people the world over.
- No one would want to be so foolish as to suggest that this poem is an allegory of trouble in the Church.
- For those who don't know, the story is a futuristic allegory of the Arab Revolt familiar to most through the film Lawrence of Arabia.
- Lyly's play uses the myth to present a political allegory of Philip of Spain, by giving Midas and his courtiers what was considered by a contemporary English audience to be a specifically Spanish characteristic: the desire for gold.
- I believe that categorizing this story as an allegory is more appropriate than doing so as a myth because a myth is defined as explaining natural phenomenon.
- Later works, like The Croquet Player, are fables or political allegories.
- John Ford's classic western, starring John Wayne, is a political allegory about how ‘civilisation’ managed to conquer America's Wild West.
- My first response upon rereading the book, largely thanks to my current preoccupations, was to interpret the story as an allegory about writing fiction.
Synonyms
parable, analogy, metaphor, symbol, emblem
1. 1.1 A symbol.
  象征
  Example sentencesExamples
  And it's a story that expects us to take the superhero at face value; this boy-spider is not an allegory for anything, not a symbol for a class of people or culture.
  Wajda's sewer rats swarmed onwards as allegory: they eventually emerged not from a Warsaw manhole, but a manhole on Wall Street.
  Your dreams are full of symbols and allegories.
  He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world.
  A thoughtfully chosen group of paintings ranging from personal allegories to landscapes to portraits simultaneously revealed Beckmann's individuality and his debt to both the art of the past and of his own day.
  These are not candidates who represent ideas and programs so much as allegories representing human weaknesses and failings.
  But then comes the coded ending, and you realize that Bagger is a symbol, an allegory, a pillar of life, death and whatever else.
  Simply put, Burns reads pictures as allegories of class interest and identity.
  Miller had been absent from the stage since The Crucible, in which he used the Salem witch trials as allegory for McCarthyism.
  Synonyms
  emblem, token, sign, representation, figure, image, type

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French allegorie, via Latin from Greek allēgoria, from allos ‘other’ + -agoria ‘speaking’.

单词	allegory
释义	Definition of allegory in English: allegory nounPlural allegories ˈalɪɡ(ə)riˈæləˌɡɔri 1A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. （尤指道德或政治说教的）寓言；讽喻诗；讽喻画 Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey 《天路历程》是一个讲述精神历程的寓言。 Example sentencesExamples Panofsky argued that to understand any piece of Renaissance art it was necessary to understand its subject matter: images, stories, and allegories. It can, and has, also been interpreted as an allegory of the political, economic and social adventures of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It is, for example, perfectly possible to read the poem as an allegory not of war but of the ‘war’ between the sexes. My university education had transformed me into a theistic evolutionist, one who believed that God intended the Genesis account of creation to be an allegory picturing the total evolution of the cosmos. John Ford's classic western, starring John Wayne, is a political allegory about how ‘civilisation’ managed to conquer America's Wild West. No one would want to be so foolish as to suggest that this poem is an allegory of trouble in the Church. Lyly's play uses the myth to present a political allegory of Philip of Spain, by giving Midas and his courtiers what was considered by a contemporary English audience to be a specifically Spanish characteristic: the desire for gold. Throw Away Kids was three interwoven stories presenting as an allegory of the experience of Native people the world over. Later works, like The Croquet Player, are fables or political allegories. Some feminist critics have interpreted Frankenstein as an allegory of childbirth which, in this case, is the product of solitary male propagation, being the proverbial scientist's brain child. If you had sat through that entire game, and had experienced something of that season, you would have known that this home run was a great moment, yes, but one in a long story - not an allegory nor morality tale. A story is an allegory of real life; the characters are allegories of real people, since you only take the important parts of their lives. At a news conference, Lucas acknowledged the political allegories of the saga, which could have contemporary resonance although he wrote it at the time of the Nixon era. Lewis repeatedly denied that the Narnia stories were allegories. The interactions between the characters in Springtime obviously form a political allegory, but rarely have I seen allegorical conceits that were as likeable as these characters are. For those who don't know, the story is a futuristic allegory of the Arab Revolt familiar to most through the film Lawrence of Arabia. I've been thinking about Kafka's ‘Metamorphosis’, a story which is an allegory about how we view those who are chronically ill. My first response upon rereading the book, largely thanks to my current preoccupations, was to interpret the story as an allegory about writing fiction. I believe that categorizing this story as an allegory is more appropriate than doing so as a myth because a myth is defined as explaining natural phenomenon. You could read the relationship as a love story or an allegory of two sides struggling to come together - East and West, Christian and Muslim, the have and the have-not - against the creeping influence of negativity. Synonyms parable, analogy, metaphor, symbol, emblem story, tale, myth, legend, saga, fable, apologue 1.1 A symbol. 象征 Example sentencesExamples Miller had been absent from the stage since The Crucible, in which he used the Salem witch trials as allegory for McCarthyism. A thoughtfully chosen group of paintings ranging from personal allegories to landscapes to portraits simultaneously revealed Beckmann's individuality and his debt to both the art of the past and of his own day. These are not candidates who represent ideas and programs so much as allegories representing human weaknesses and failings. Wajda's sewer rats swarmed onwards as allegory: they eventually emerged not from a Warsaw manhole, but a manhole on Wall Street. Your dreams are full of symbols and allegories. Simply put, Burns reads pictures as allegories of class interest and identity. He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world. And it's a story that expects us to take the superhero at face value; this boy-spider is not an allegory for anything, not a symbol for a class of people or culture. But then comes the coded ending, and you realize that Bagger is a symbol, an allegory, a pillar of life, death and whatever else. Synonyms emblem, token, sign, representation, figure, image, type Derivatives allegorist noun ˈalɪɡərɪstˈæləˌɡɔrəst The Christian allegorists, recharging the remaindered Pagan symbols, hope to exorcise the residual energies of the pagan world. Example sentencesExamples His narratives usually lend themselves to rich allegorical readings, and Tsui can be a very skilful allegorist when he wants to be. He begins by noting that the Renaissance humanists fell into two groups: the philologists who believed that value lay in the original meaning of words, and the allegorists for whom truths lay beneath the veil of art. Kafka wrongly gets posited as a political or humanitarian allegorist, when his stories are rather personal series of images and processes that cannot be conclusively unlocked. Allegorical imagery is appropriated imagery; the allegorist does not invent images but confiscates them. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French allegorie, via Latin from Greek allēgoria, from allos 'other' + -agoria 'speaking'. An allegory is basically speaking about one thing in terms of another, and comes from Greek allos ‘other’ and -agoria ‘speaking’. Definition of allegory in US English: allegory nounˈaləˌɡôrēˈæləˌɡɔri 1A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. （尤指道德或政治说教的）寓言；讽喻诗；讽喻画 Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey 《天路历程》是一个讲述精神历程的寓言。 Example sentencesExamples It can, and has, also been interpreted as an allegory of the political, economic and social adventures of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. My university education had transformed me into a theistic evolutionist, one who believed that God intended the Genesis account of creation to be an allegory picturing the total evolution of the cosmos. Some feminist critics have interpreted Frankenstein as an allegory of childbirth which, in this case, is the product of solitary male propagation, being the proverbial scientist's brain child. It is, for example, perfectly possible to read the poem as an allegory not of war but of the ‘war’ between the sexes. Panofsky argued that to understand any piece of Renaissance art it was necessary to understand its subject matter: images, stories, and allegories. At a news conference, Lucas acknowledged the political allegories of the saga, which could have contemporary resonance although he wrote it at the time of the Nixon era. A story is an allegory of real life; the characters are allegories of real people, since you only take the important parts of their lives. I've been thinking about Kafka's ‘Metamorphosis’, a story which is an allegory about how we view those who are chronically ill. Lewis repeatedly denied that the Narnia stories were allegories. The interactions between the characters in Springtime obviously form a political allegory, but rarely have I seen allegorical conceits that were as likeable as these characters are. You could read the relationship as a love story or an allegory of two sides struggling to come together - East and West, Christian and Muslim, the have and the have-not - against the creeping influence of negativity. If you had sat through that entire game, and had experienced something of that season, you would have known that this home run was a great moment, yes, but one in a long story - not an allegory nor morality tale. Throw Away Kids was three interwoven stories presenting as an allegory of the experience of Native people the world over. No one would want to be so foolish as to suggest that this poem is an allegory of trouble in the Church. For those who don't know, the story is a futuristic allegory of the Arab Revolt familiar to most through the film Lawrence of Arabia. Lyly's play uses the myth to present a political allegory of Philip of Spain, by giving Midas and his courtiers what was considered by a contemporary English audience to be a specifically Spanish characteristic: the desire for gold. I believe that categorizing this story as an allegory is more appropriate than doing so as a myth because a myth is defined as explaining natural phenomenon. Later works, like The Croquet Player, are fables or political allegories. John Ford's classic western, starring John Wayne, is a political allegory about how ‘civilisation’ managed to conquer America's Wild West. My first response upon rereading the book, largely thanks to my current preoccupations, was to interpret the story as an allegory about writing fiction. Synonyms parable, analogy, metaphor, symbol, emblem 1.1 A symbol. 象征 Example sentencesExamples And it's a story that expects us to take the superhero at face value; this boy-spider is not an allegory for anything, not a symbol for a class of people or culture. Wajda's sewer rats swarmed onwards as allegory: they eventually emerged not from a Warsaw manhole, but a manhole on Wall Street. Your dreams are full of symbols and allegories. He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world. A thoughtfully chosen group of paintings ranging from personal allegories to landscapes to portraits simultaneously revealed Beckmann's individuality and his debt to both the art of the past and of his own day. These are not candidates who represent ideas and programs so much as allegories representing human weaknesses and failings. But then comes the coded ending, and you realize that Bagger is a symbol, an allegory, a pillar of life, death and whatever else. Simply put, Burns reads pictures as allegories of class interest and identity. Miller had been absent from the stage since The Crucible, in which he used the Salem witch trials as allegory for McCarthyism. Synonyms emblem, token, sign, representation, figure, image, type Origin Late Middle English: from Old French allegorie, via Latin from Greek allēgoria, from allos ‘other’ + -agoria ‘speaking’.
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