Wiktionary:Word of the day/2025/June 27

1. (uncountable, rhetoric) The 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. (countable, by extension)
   1. A 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.
   2. A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.
   3. (mathematics, category theory) A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.

allegory v

1. (archaic) Synonym of allegorize.
   1. (transitive) To interpret (a picture, story, or other form of communication) to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
   2. (transitive) To 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. (transitive, chiefly religion) Followed by away: to treat (something) as allegorical or symbolic rather than as truth.
   4. (intransitive) To interpret an allegory.
   5. (intransitive) To create or use allegory.