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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD APOLOGUE

From Latin, from Greek apologos.
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PRONUNCIATION OF APOLOGUE

apologue  [ˈæpəˌlɒɡ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF APOLOGUE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Apologue is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES APOLOGUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Apologue

An apologue or apolog is a brief fable or allegorical story with pointed or exaggerated details, meant to serve as a pleasant vehicle for a moral doctrine or to convey a useful lesson without stating it explicitly. Unlike a fable, the moral is more important than the narrative details. As with the parable, the apologue is a tool of rhetorical argument used to convince or persuade. Among the best known ancient and classical examples are that of Jotham in the Book of Judges; "The Belly and its Members," by the patrician Agrippa Menenius Lanatus in the second book of Livy; and perhaps most famous of all, those of Aesop. Well-known modern examples of this literary form include George Orwell's Animal Farm and the Br'er Rabbit stories derived from African and Cherokee cultures and recorded and synthesized by Joel Chandler Harris. The term is applied more particularly to a story in which the actors or speakers are either various kinds of animals or are inanimate objects. An apologue is distinguished from a fable in that there is always some moral sense present in the former, which there need not be in the latter.

Definition of apologue in the English dictionary

The definition of apologue in the dictionary is an allegory or moral fable.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH APOLOGUE


analog
ˈænəˌlɒɡ
analogue
ˈænəˌlɒɡ
catalogue
ˈkætəˌlɒɡ
Decalogue
ˈdɛkəˌlɒɡ
dialogue
ˈdaɪəˌlɒɡ
duolog
ˈdjuːəˌlɒɡ
duologue
ˈdjuːəˌlɒɡ
grammalogue
ˈɡræməˌlɒɡ
homolog
ˈhɒməˌlɒɡ
homologue
ˈhɒməˌlɒɡ
isolog
ˈaɪsəˌlɒɡ
magalog
ˈmaɡəˌlɒɡ
magalogue
ˈmaɡəˌlɒɡ
monolog
ˈmɒnəˌlɒɡ
monologue
ˈmɒnəˌlɒɡ
philologue
ˈfɪləˌlɒɡ
recatalogue
riːˈkætəˌlɒɡ
Sinologue
ˈsaɪnəˌlɒɡ
theologue
ˈθɪəˌlɒɡ
trialogue
ˈtraɪəˌlɒɡ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE APOLOGUE

apollo
Apollonian
apollonicon
Apollonius of Perga
Apollonius of Rhodes
Apollyon
apologal
apologetic
apologetical
apologetically
apologetics
apologia
apologies
apologise
apologiser
apologist
apologize
apologizer
apology
apolune

WORDS THAT END LIKE APOLOGUE

aeglogue
back catalogue
card catalogue
collogue
dictionary catalogue
eclogue
epilogue
ideologue
interior monologue
isologue
mail-order catalogue
Messier catalogue
Minogue
prologue
pseudologue
rogue
subject catalogue
travelogue
union catalogue
vogue

Synonyms and antonyms of apologue in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «apologue» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF APOLOGUE

Find out the translation of apologue to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of apologue from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «apologue» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

寓言
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

apólogo
570 millions of speakers

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apologue
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

apologue
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

apologue
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

притча
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

apólogo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নীতিকাহিনী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

apologue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meminta maaf
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

apologue
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

寓話
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

apologue
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Apologue
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngụ ngôn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீதிக் கதை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

माफी मागणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

apologue
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

apologo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

apolog
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

притча
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

apolog
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

apologue
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

apologue
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

apologue
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

apologue
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of apologue

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «APOLOGUE»

The term «apologue» is regularly used and occupies the 104.206 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «APOLOGUE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «apologue» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «apologue» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about apologue

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APOLOGUE»

Discover the use of apologue in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to apologue and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Tale of Two Truths: An Apologue, a Moral Fable in which ...
Dhobi-ka-Gadha, like most other donkeys, was born detached, blissfully ignorant of the great beyond.
Ashvin Desai, 2009
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The Anthropology of Wisdom Literature
The Apologue Unlike the fable, the apologue has not been the object of systematic research. As we have seen above, it has been often confused with the fable. In A Handbook to Literature, C. Hugh Holman (1985) goes as far as to say that the ...
Wanda Ostrowska Kaufmann, 1996
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El criticón:
These two functions correspond to the introductory apologue and the subsequent episodic action that it has introduced. The initial apologues are brief, discrete entities removed from the pretended reality of the work's action, even when ...
Theodore L. Kassier, 1976
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Reynard the Fox, a Renowned Apologue of the Middle Age;
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
S. Naylor, 2009
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Fiction and the Shape of Belief
character is, almost of necessity and almost ruthlessly, limited to qualities directly required for their role in the apologue.70 Nekayah is sufficiently sisterly to wish to accompany Rasselas, sufficiently feminine to explore the possibilities of ...
Sheldon Sacks, 1967
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The Ladder of High Designs: Structure and Interpretation of ...
Form The parts of fable are the apologue and the exposition, which in a particular text may be single or multiple. Apologue is a theme-dominated plot or description : it serves primarily to embody an argument. As such, it stands in sharp contrast ...
Doranne Fenoaltea, David Lee Rubin, 1991
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Sin Chong (the Faithful Heart): A Celestial Apologue...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
W Braunston Jones, 2012
8
Winners of the Melbourne Cup: Stories that Stopped a Nation
Apologue. time 3.27.50 jockey B. Evans trainer I. Earnshaw owner R. L. Cleland if The complex relationship between horse and rider were to be broken down to its most elementary level, a basic analysis might conclude that the horse's job is ...
Costa Rolfe, 2012
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Apologue
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Kristen Nehemiah Horst, 2011
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The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated
apologue of antiquity, I shall need no excuse for transcribing it : " The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them, and they said unto the olive-tree, reign thou over us. But the olive-tree said unto them, should I leave my fatness, ...
William Warburton, 1837

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APOLOGUE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term apologue is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lalit Modi and dejà vu UPA
... story about India's foreign minister coming to the aid of an ED accused fugitive, has snowballed into a grand action-filled apologue. «Business Standard, Jun 15»
2
From Canada: A Highbrow Book About Talking Dogs
It's an apologue, a style of storytelling you don't hear much about these days — the kind that uses animals to tell a moral tale (the same thing ... «OZY, Jun 15»
3
Mass Effect 4 Won't Be a Prequel, Bioware Confirms
... the first attempts at deep space exploration in this very universe, or it could be far afterwards featuring a completely new apologue. «WCCFtech, Jun 15»
4
Andre Alexis offers readers some puppy love
The opening is also typical of an apologue, a kind of fable, according to Alexis who says it allowed him to jump straight into the story without a ... «Ottawa Citizen, May 15»
5
Jon's Movie Review: “Slow West” Is A Modern Classic
Slow West is not lethargic, but deliberately paced around the apologue it is constructing and deconstructing. RATING(9/10 ... «The Young Folks, May 15»
6
Myuran Sukumaran's final painting
Perhaps there's some merit in the idea that they could be owned by the Australian people as an apologue about redemption and personal ... «Sky News Australia, Apr 15»
7
Serpent's Tail Acquire Canadian Novel Fifteen Dogs
Engaging and strange, full of unexpected insights into human and canine minds, this contemporary take on the apologue is the most ... «Booktrade.info, Apr 15»
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Last word: Andre Alexis on a matter of style
Five approaches came to me at once. I wanted to tell it as a pastoral (that is, a tale set in an idealized rural world), as an apologue (a moral tale ... «Quill & Quire, Mar 15»
9
Prophet Welcomes Design Partner Tali Krakowsky
Prior to joining Prophet, she was the Founder and Creative Director at Apologue, an experience design studio. Earlier, she was the Director of ... «Business Wire, Mar 15»
10
AUM Techno Presents Joe Farr (live), Ansome (live)
... the near future. JAMIE CURNOCK Jamie Curnock - co-founder of Onnset Records and Apologue Recordings. Twitter - aum_techno Facebook - facebook.com/ ... «Skiddle.com, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Apologue [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/apologue>. Apr 2024 ».
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