allegory

意味: 寓話

例文: Philo’s plant poem was a deep moss allegory.
    フィロの植物詩は深いコケの寓話だった。

定義: (しばしば動物の登場人物の)短い道徳的な物語

コロケーション:

allegoryは900,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

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Definitions(定義)

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

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): allegory, apologue, emblem, fable, parable

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): expressive style, story, symbol

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): adventure story, allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, crossbones, death’s head, device, eloquence, emblem, euphuism, fable, flatness, formulation, grandiosity, headlinese, horn of plenty, jargon, journalese, legalese, legend, love story, manner of speaking, music genre, mystery, myth, officialese, oriflamme, parable, pathos, plot, poetry, prose, rhetoric, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, short story, terseness, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, white feather, writing style

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): aesop’s fables, agnus dei, badge, cupid, donkey, dove, eagle, elephant, fasces, hammer and sickle, maple-leaf, medallion, national flag, red flag, scarlet letter, spread eagle, star of david, swastika

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: allegoric, allegorical, allegorise, allegorize, emblematic, emblematical, fabulist, fabulous, parabolic, parabolical

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: rare

Usage Context: general

Grammatical Notes:

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): y

Exam Level

英検1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

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Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories:

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