allegory

(no longer used) To interpret (a picture, story, or other form of communication) to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.

(no longer used) Followed by away: to treat (something) as allegorical or symbolic rather than as truth.

(no longer used) To create an allegory from (a character, an event or situation, etc.); also, to use one or more symbols to depict (a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences).

(no longer used) To create or use allegory.

(no longer used) Synonym of allegorize.

(no longer used) To interpret an allegory.

A picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.

(rhetoric) The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.

A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.

A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.