Usually means: Theatrical allegory teaching ethical lessons.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word morality play:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. morality play: Merriam-Webster
  2. morality play: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. morality play: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. morality play: Collins English Dictionary
  5. morality play: Vocabulary.com
  6. morality play: Wiktionary
  7. morality play: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. morality play: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. morality play: Dictionary.com
  10. Morality Play (novel), Morality play: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. morality play: Rhymezone
  12. morality play: FreeDictionary.org
  13. morality play: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. morality play: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. morality play: Encyclopedia

(Note: See morality_plays as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (morality play)

noun:  a type of allegorical drama towards the end of the Middle Ages that demonstrates a moral theme such as a character's inner struggle to attain moral enlightenment or salvation

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