Plural of allegory
regular plural
The plural of allegory is allegories.
Forms of allegory
| Singular | allegory /ˈælɪɡəɹi/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | allegories |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Allegories in a sentence
- In Jack London's urban gothic, the city's teratological economy comes to light in grotesque animal allegories.1998, Christophe Den Tandt, The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism. From the entry teratological
- As we move from Montagu's own theorization of translation to her complex recusative acts of allusion and finally to her Virgilian allegories, we can track two coextensive performances .2019, Daniel O'Quinn, Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815, page 166. From the entry recusative
Meaning of allegory
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
- noun A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.
Questions about the plural of allegory
- What is the plural of allegory?
- The plural of allegory is allegories.
- Is allegory countable?
- Allegory is a countable and uncountable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: allegory (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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