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Translate allegories from English to German

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allegory:
- Allegorie
Wiktionary:
- allegory → Allegorie, Sinnbild, Allegorik
- allegory → Allegorie, Sinnbild, Gleichnis

English

Detailed Translations for allegories from English to German

allegory:

allegory [the ~] noun

the allegory
die Allegorie
- Allegorie [die ~] noun

Translation Matrix for allegory:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
Allegorie	allegory
-	apologue; emblem; fable; parable

Related Words for "allegory":

allegories

Synonyms for "allegory":

fable; parable; apologue; story
emblem; symbol; symbolization; symbolisation; symbolic representation
expressive style; style

Related Definitions for "allegory":

an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor¹
a short moral story (often with animal characters)¹
a visible symbol representing an abstract idea¹

Wiktionary Translations for allegory:

allegory

noun

the representation of abstract principles
- allegory → Allegorie; Sinnbild
symbolic representation
- allegory → Allegorie; Sinnbild
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- allegory → Allegorik

allegory

noun

konventionalisierte bildliche Darstellung eines abstrakten Sachverhalts
- Sinnbild → allegory; symbol
Literatur, Rhetorik: personifizierende oder gegenständliche Darstellung eines abstrakten Sachverhaltes
- Allegorie → allegory

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• allegory	→ Allegorie; Sinnbild; Gleichnis	↔ allégorie — représentation concret et imagée par des éléments descriptifs d’une idée abstraite.

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