PARABLE meaning: Short story illustrating a moral

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word Parable:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

parable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
parable: Merriam-Webster
parable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
parable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
parable: Collins English Dictionary
parable: Vocabulary.com
Parable, parable: Wordnik
parable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
parable: Wiktionary
parable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
parable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
parable: Infoplease Dictionary
Parable, parable: Dictionary.com
parable: Online Etymology Dictionary
parable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Parable (disambiguation), Parable (film), Parable, The Parable (album), The Parable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Parable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
parable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
parable: Rhymezone
parable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
parable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
parable: FreeDictionary.org
parable: Mnemonic Dictionary
parable: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Computing (1 matching dictionary)

parable: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

parable: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)

Parable: Easton Bible
Parable: Smith's Bible Dictionary
Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

parable: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (parable)

▸ noun:  A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To represent by parable.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) That can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable.

Opposite:

anti-parable

Types:

sower, Good Samaritan, prodigal son, Good Shepherd, rich mand Lazarus, workers in vineyard, more...

Phrases:

modern parable, Parable of the Good Samaritan, Parable of the Prodigal Son, The Stanley Parable, Parable of the talents or minas, more...

Adjectives:

little, first, famous, biblical, second, beautiful, original, third, old, simple, whole

Colors:

gold, olive, sepia, amber, sienna, more...

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