parable

nouns

a short moral story (often with animal characters)
allegory, apologue, fable, parable
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parabolic
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parabolical
(New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
"the parable of the prodigal son"
parable
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parabolic
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parabolical
domain category
the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible
New Testament
is a type of (narrower)
a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
"he writes stories for the magazines"
story