Hakenkreuz vs allegory

allegory vs Hakenkreuz

Hakenkreuz and allegory both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Hakenkreuz	Yes	No	No	No
allegory	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, allegory is a hypernym of Hakenkreuz; that is, allegory is a word with a broader meaning than Hakenkreuz:

Hakenkreuz: the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction
allegory: a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

Other hypernyms of Hakenkreuz include tetraskele, tetraskelion, emblem.

Hakenkreuz (noun)	allegory (noun)
the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction	a short moral story (often with animal characters)
	an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
	a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

Difference between Hakenkreuz and allegory

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