parable
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
Types & categories
- story hypernym
- Aesop's fables hyponym
- Pilgrim's Progress instance hyponym
Related & opposite
- fabulist derivation
- allegorize derivation
- allegorize derivation
- mythical derivation
- allegorical derivation
- parabolic derivation
Sense 2 noun
(New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
the parable of the prodigal son
Types & categories
- story hypernym
Related & opposite
- parabolic derivation
- New Testament domain topic
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fabulist |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | allegorize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | allegorize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | mythical |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | allegorical |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | parabolic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | story |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Aesop's fables |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Pilgrim's Progress |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | parabolic |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | New Testament |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | story |