parábola

Definitions of parábola
  1. noun
    a short moral story (often with animal characters)
    synonyms: alegoría, apólogo, fábula
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    type of:
    historia, relato
    a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
  2. noun
    a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve
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