Synonyms for apologue
- noun
Definitions
- n. 1
A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.
Related words
- Word family
- apologetic apology
- Other spellings
- apolog
Forms
- Plural
- apologues → fables, parables, allegories, fictions…
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Apologue, a word simply transferred from Greek into English, is the same as fable.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- fiction About half of everything he says is sheer fiction.
- fable Who doesn't know the fable "The Fox and the Grapes"?
- parable The parable of the talents is one of my favorites.
- allegory That's an allegory. Do you know what that is?
By length
- 5 letters
- fable2
- 7 letters
- fiction2, parable3
- 8 letters
- allegory4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fable2 = 2 syllables).