INFERNO Definition & Meaning

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inferno

[ in-fur-noh; Italian een-fer-naw ]

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noun

plural infernos.

hell; the infernal regions.
a place or region that resembles hell:
The ironworks was an inferno of molten steel and half-naked bodies.
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(initial capital letter, italics) the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, depicting hell and the suffering of the damned. Compare paradise ( def 7 ), purgatory ( def 2 ).

inferno

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noun

the inferno
sometimes capital hell; the infernal region
any place or state resembling hell, esp a conflagration

Inferno

The first section of The Divine Comedy, by Dante . Inferno is the Italian word for “ hell .”

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Notes

By extension, an “inferno” is a hot and terrible place or condition.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of inferno¹

1825–35; < Italian < Late Latin infernus hell, noun use of Latin infernus; infernal

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of inferno¹

C19: from Italian, from Late Latin infernus hell

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Witnesses said the bakery on an industrial estate in Exhall, near Coventry, turned into an "inferno" at about 20:00 GMT on Friday, with the entire building well alight.

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Until a week ago, Ramirez and her family had been staying in hotels, bouncing from city to city after January’s inferno forced them to evacuate.

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A couple dozen of the porcelain snow-baby figurines from Kathi’s collection, which numbered in the hundreds, survived the inferno even though the shelves they were displayed on burned.

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"Everybody had only seconds to react", the sailor said, as he described the crew's bravery going into the inferno.

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"They didn't remain at the scene with their towering inferno vehicle," said Mr Little.

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