English-Finnish translations for allegory

• allegoria
  IND/DEM-ryhmän puolesta. - (EN) Arvoisa puhemies, Euroopan parlamentti on kuin Baabelin torni, allegoria Habsburgien keisarikunnalle, joka oli täynnä hännystelijöitä. 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.
• vertauskuva
  Sydän on rakkauden ja risti kristinuskon vertauskuva.
• alegoria
• mielikuva

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
• agoraphobia
• category