inferno
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- noun
- /ɪnˈfɜrnoʊ/
- Literature
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infierno
- Many stories describe the inferno as a realm filled with suffering and darkness, where the wicked are eternally tormented.
- Dante's Inferno
- canto of the Inferno
- circle of the Inferno
There's a black sky above Hell, and because the sky is black and there's no light, there are two paragraphs of the Inferno that the contact with Hell is an audio contact.
- There's a black sky above Hell, and because the sky is black and there's no light, there are two paragraphs of the Inferno that the contact with Hell is an audio contact.
- And interestingly, Dante, who's coming, you know, about another century later, Dante is going to place him in hell, in the Inferno.
- I read Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, Inferno.
- We also read Dante portions of Dante's Inferno.
Examples
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In this plate, from a fifteenth-century edition of the Inferno, Pier della Vigna's body hangs from a bleeding tree.
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In Christian belief, the inferno is depicted as a place of eternal punishment for those who have sinned.
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The most famous is this one on the left in the Inferno of Dante.
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In the Inferno, the protagonist travels to the center of the round earth.
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As Dante says in his Inferno, all hope abandons ye who enter, and this is how courage is born.
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Deep within the inferno, Gianni Schicchi keeps the company of other deceivers.
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For his final lecture, he spoke on the last canto of Dante's Inferno, a classy way to go out.
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Dante's pilgrim finds Pier della Vigna on the seventh level of the Inferno... and, like Judas Iscariot, he died by hanging.
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According to religious texts, the entrance to the inferno is marked by the warning 'Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.'
Synonyms
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A religious idea of a place after death where people who do wrong suffer forever
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A place of punishment and suffering after death in Christian belief
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A place where souls go after death in myths
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A place of burning where people suffer forever after death
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Punishment that never ends in Hell for doing something wrong
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A state of never ending suffering after death, like hell
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A place or situation that causes great suffering and pain
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A place of suffering for the dead in religious stories
A place of fire and suffering where bad people are punished after death
The place of the dead in Greek myths where souls go after death
Antonyms
How Punishing
- Literature
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Inferno comes from the Italian inferno and the Latin infernum, from the Latin root inferus meaning 'below' or 'under', and it originally named 'hell'. So inferno still often means the place of eternal punishment, or 'hell'.