Usually means: Short story illustrating a moral.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word parable:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. parable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. parable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. parable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. parable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Parable, parable: Wordnik
  7. parable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. parable: Wiktionary
  9. parable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. parable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. parable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Parable, parable: Dictionary.com
  13. parable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. parable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Parable (disambiguation), Parable (film), Parable, The Parable (album), The Parable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Parable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. parable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. parable: Rhymezone
  19. parable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. parable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. parable: Free Dictionary
  22. parable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. parable: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. parable: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parable: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parable: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Parable: Easton Bible
  2. Parable: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parable: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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.

Similar:
allegory, apologue, fable, similitude, metaparable, analogy, comparison, analogizing, example, parallel, more...

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


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Similar:
allegory, apologue, fable, similitude, metaparable, analogy, comparison, analogizing, example, parallel, more...

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, Parable of the Rich Fool, Parable of the broken window, more...

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



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