parable
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- noun
- /ˈpɛrəbl/
- Literature
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parábola
- The parable of the Good Samaritan teaches us the importance of kindness and compassion.
- meaning of the parable
- interpretation of the parable
- read the parable
There's old Zen parable about let go or get dragged.
- There's old Zen parable about let go or get dragged.
- They use parables, storytelling to make their point.
- And the first one is the parable of the talents.
- This morning, Trump attended a prayer breakfast where he quoted Christ's parable on the Mueller witch hunt.
- I'm starting to do more stories like metaphors, parables, things like that.
- There have been myths, fairy tales, parables.
- There are lots and lots of stories and texts and parables.
- And going back to psychoanalysis, I can give you a a parable.
Examples
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What this parable really teaches us is that we do best to wait.
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In my family, the favorite parable to tell is the parable of the preacher who got caught in the bar.
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I wanted to tell him a parable that would make him feel better.
Fiction book (1999) -
Let me share with you a parable.
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The meaning of a parable depends on both its content and its context.
Academic text (2015) -
You know the parable of The Good Samaritan?
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Let's just, you know, well, I mean, I think that I love the parable of the prodigal son.
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Any story we can tell is a brief parable of the twentieth century.
Fiction book (1999) -
A central theme of this parable is the deliberate exclusion of the older brother.
Academic text (2015) -
It's a political parable about the flaws of capitalistic society.
Synonyms
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A short story with animal characters that teaches a moral lesson
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A story or picture whose people and events show moral and political ideas
A short story that teaches a lesson, often using animals
A story that teaches a moral lesson
A short story told to show a moral or lesson
How Moral
Surface Forms
Etymology
Parable comes from an old Greek word parabole, built from para- 'beside' and ballein 'to throw', and you can also see para- in the word paragraph. So a parable is a short story placed beside an idea to help explain a moral or spiritual lesson.