apologue
ap·o·logue (
p
-lôg
, -l
g)
n.
A moral fable, especially one having animals or inanimate objects as characters.
[French, from Latin apologus, from Greek apologos : apo-, apo- + logos, speech; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]
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Noun |
1. |
apologue – a short moral story (often with animal characters)story – a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; “he writes stories for the magazines”Aesop’s fables – a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop |
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