What is the meaning of Allegory?

The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.

  1. A picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
  2. A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.
  3. A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.

A picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.

A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.

A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.

Synonym of allegorize.

  1. To interpret (a picture, story, or other form of communication) to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
  2. To create an allegory (noun sense 2.1) from (a character, an event or situation, etc.); also, to use one or more symbols to depict (a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences).
  3. Followed by away: to treat (something) as allegorical or symbolic rather than as truth.
  4. To interpret an allegory.
  5. To create or use allegory.

To interpret (a picture, story, or other form of communication) to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.

To create an allegory (noun sense 2.1) from (a character, an event or situation, etc.); also, to use one or more symbols to depict (a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences).

Followed by away: to treat (something) as allegorical or symbolic rather than as truth.

To interpret an allegory.

To create or use allegory.

Source: wiktionary.org