1. (n.) A short story that contains a moral or lesson\.

2. (n.) A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ.

3. (v. t.) To represent by parable.

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