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ALLEGORY

8 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

ALLEGORY is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

ALLEGORIES 11
noun
  1. rhetoricuncountableThe use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.
  2. broadlycountableuncountableA picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
  3. broadlycountableuncountableA character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.
  4. broadlycountableuncountableA category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.
verb
  1. archaictransitiveTo interpret (a picture, story, or other form of communication) to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
  2. archaictransitiveTo create an allegory (noun sense 2.1) from (a character, an event or situation, etc.); also, to use one or more symbols to depict (a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences).
  3. archaictransitiveFollowed by away: to treat (something) as allegorical or symbolic rather than as truth.
  4. archaicintransitiveTo interpret an allegory.
  5. archaicintransitiveTo create or use allegory.