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BEATRICE
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• BEATRICE (noun)
The noun BEATRICE has 1 sense:
1. the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy
Familiarity information: BEATRICE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
The woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))
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"Life will show you what you did not know." (Arabic proverb)
"A horse aged thirty: don't add any more years." (Corsican proverb)