English-Thai Dictionary

allegory

N การ แฝง คติ  การสมมติ เปรียบเทียบ  kan-faeng-ka-ti

 

allegory

N นิทาน เปรียบเทียบ  nid-than-priab-thiab

 

allegory

N เครื่องหมาย สัญลักษณ์  khrueang-mai-san-ya-lak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ALLEGORY

n.[Gr. other, to speak, a forum, an oration. ] A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The principal subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker, by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject. Allegory is in words that hieroglyphics are in painting. We have a fine example of an allegory in the eightieth Psalm, in which God's chosen people are represented by a vineyard. The distinction in scripture between a parable and an allegory, is said to be that a parable is a supposed history, and an allegory, a figurative description of real facts. An allegory is called a continued metaphor. The following line in Virgil is an example of an allegory.
Claudite jam rivos, pueri, sat prata biberunt.
Stop the currents, young men, the meadows have drank sufficiently; that is let your music cease, our ears have been sufficiently delighted.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ALLEGORY

Al "le *go *ry, n.; pl. Allegories. Etym: [L. allegoria, Gr. allégorie.]

 

1. A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

 

2. Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.

 

3. (Paint. & Sculpt. )

 

Defn: A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

 

Syn. -- Metaphor; fable. -- Allegory, Parable. "An allegory differs both from fable and parable, in that the properties of persons are fictitiously represented as attached to things, to which they are as it were transferred. ... A figure of Peace and Victory crowning some historical personage is an allegory. "I am the Vine, ye are the branches " [John xv. 1-6 ] is a spoken allegory. In the parable there is no transference of properties. The parable of the sower [Matt. xiii. 3-23 ] represents all things as according to their proper nature. In the allegory quoted above the properties of the vine and the relation of the branches are transferred to the person of Christ and His apostles and disciples." C. J. Smith.

 

Note: An allegory is a prolonged metaphor. Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress " and Spenser's "Faërie Queene " are celebrated examples of the allegory.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

allegory

al le go ry |ˈaləˌgôrē ˈæləˌɡɔri | ▶noun ( pl. allegories ) a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one: Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey. • a symbol. DERIVATIVES al le go rist |-ist |noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French allegorie, via Latin from Greek allēgoria, from allos ‘other ’ + -agoria ‘speaking. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

allegory

al ¦le |gory |ˈalɪg (ə )ri | ▶noun ( pl. allegories ) a story, poem, or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one: Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey. • a symbol. DERIVATIVES allegorist noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French allegorie, via Latin from Greek allēgoria, from allos ‘other ’ + -agoria ‘speaking ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

allegory

allegory noun Saramago's latest novel is an allegory of social disintegration: parable, analogy, metaphor, symbol, emblem.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

allegory

allegory noun ‘Pilgrim's Progress ’ is an allegory of the spiritual journey: parable, analogy, metaphor, symbol, emblem; story, tale, myth, legend, saga, fable, apologue.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

allegory

al le go ry /ǽləɡɔ̀ːri |-ɡ (ə )ri /名詞 複 -ries C 寓話 （ぐうわ ）, 寓意的作品 〘道徳的な教訓を与える物語 絵; →parable , fable 〙; U 寓喩 （ぐうゆ ）.