DANTE

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• DANTE (noun)
  The noun DANTE has 1 sense:

1. an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)

  Familiarity information: DANTE used as a noun is very rare.

• DANTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dante; Dante Alighieri

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Derivation:

Dantean (of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings)

 Context examples 

Among Bennu's many surprises, the particle ejections sparked our curiosity, and we've spent the last several months investigating this mystery, said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

I remembered again the blood-beslobbered face which we had seen in the glare of Lord John's torch, like some horrible vision from the deepest circle of Dante's hell.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was a weird place in itself, but its occupants made it seem like a scene from the Seven Circles of Dante.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)