| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| apologue |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ap·o·logue |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   p  -lôg , -l g |
| NOUN: | A moral fable, especially one having animals or inanimate objects as characters. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from Latin apologus, from Greek apologos : apo-, apo- + logos, speech; see leg- in Appendix I.
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