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We found 32 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word parable:
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General dictionaries General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. parable: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. parable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. parable: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. parable: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Parable: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. parable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. parable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. parable: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Parable, parable: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. parable: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. parable: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. parable: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Parable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Parable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. parable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. parable: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. parable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. parable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. parable: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
  20. Parable: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  21. parable: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  22. parable: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  23. parable: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  24. parable: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  25. parable: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. parable: Linguistic Glossary [home, info]
  2. parable: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parable: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parable: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Parable: Easton Bible [home, info]
  2. Parable: Smith's Bible Dictionary [home, info]
  3. PARABLE: Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info]

Quick definitions (parable)

noun:  (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message ("The parable of the prodigal son")
noun:  a short moral story (often with animal characters)

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Phrases that include parable:   parable of the prodigal son, parable of the assassin, parable of the broken window, parable of the burglar, parable of the friend at night, more...

Words similar to parable:   allegory, apologue, fable, more...


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