Usually means: Short moral story with lesson.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word apologue:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. apologue: Merriam-Webster
  2. apologue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apologue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apologue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apologue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apologue, apologue: Wordnik
  7. apologue: Wiktionary
  8. apologue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. apologue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. apologue: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Apologue, apologue: Dictionary.com
  12. Apologue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Apologue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. apologue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. apologue: Rhymezone
  16. Apologue: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. apologue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. apologue: FreeDictionary.org
  19. apologue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. apologue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. apologue: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Apologue: Literary Terms
  3. APOLOGUE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apologue: Encyclopedia

(Note: See apologues as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (apologue)

noun:  A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.
noun:  (rhetoric) The use of fable to persuade the audience.

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