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We found 53 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word allegory: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "allegory" is defined. General (33 matching dictionaries) allegory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] allegory: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] allegory: Vocabulary.com [home, info] allegory: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] allegory: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Allegory, allegory: Wordnik [home, info] allegory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Allegory: Wiktionary [home, info] allegory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] allegory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] allegory: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] allegory: Dictionary.com [home, info] allegory: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] allegory: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] allegory: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] Allegory (category theory), Allegory (mathematics), Allegory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Allegory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] allegory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] allegory: Rhymezone [home, info] allegory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] allegory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] allegory: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info] Allegory: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info] allegory: Free Dictionary [home, info] allegory: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info] allegory: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] allegory: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] allegory: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] allegory: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Allegory: UVic Writer's Guide [home, info] allegory: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info] Art (9 matching dictionaries) allegory: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info] allegory: Global Glossary [home, info] allegory: Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric [home, info] allegory: Linguistic Glossary [home, info] allegory: Literary Criticism [home, info] Allegory: Literary Terms [home, info] Allegory: art glossary [home, info] allegory: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info] ALLEGORY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS [home, info] Business (1 matching dictionary) allegory: Legal dictionary [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) allegory: Encyclopedia [home, info] Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary) ALLEGORY: Masonic Dictionary [home, info] Religion (6 matching dictionaries) Allegory: Easton Bible [home, info] Allegory: Religious Tolerance [home, info] Allegory: Glossary of spiritual and religious terms [home, info] allegory: Postmodern Bible Dictionary [home, info] Allegory: Smith's Bible Dictionary [home, info] ALLEGORY: Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info] Science (1 matching dictionary) Allegory: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info] Slang (1 matching dictionary) allegory: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (allegory) ▸ noun:  an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor ▸ noun:  a visible symbol representing an abstract idea ▸ noun:  a short moral story (often with animal characters) ▸ Word origin