English-Dutch translations for allegory

• allegorie
  namens de IND/DEM-Fractie. - (EN) Mevrouw de Voorzitter, dit Parlement is als de Toren van Babel, een allegorie van het Habsburger Rijk, dat vol sycofanten was. on behalf of the IND/DEM Group. - Madam President, this Parliament is like the Tower of Babel, an allegory of the Habsburg Empire, which was full of sycophants.
• zinnebeeld

Definition of allegory

• The representation of abstract principles by characters or figures
• A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation
• A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalisation of that category

Related words

• agora
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• category