parábola — meaning in English

English meaning

allegory noun A story, picture, or other work whose characters and events stand for a deeper, often moral or political, meaning.
parable noun A short story used to teach a moral or spiritual lesson through comparison.

parábola is used for these senses in English:

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.
parable A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.
parabola (geometry) The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).

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