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inferno

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

noun

, plural in·fer·nos.
  1. hell; the infernal regions.
  2. a place or region that resembles hell:

    The ironworks was an inferno of molten steel and half-naked bodies.

    Synonyms: oven, hellhole, furnace

  3. (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

/ ɪnˈfɜːnəʊ /

noun

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


Inferno

  1. The first section of , 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of inferno1

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of inferno1

C19: from Italian, from Late Latin infernus hell

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Example Sentences

To ensure that the robot’s sensors still function in the heat of an inferno, the Hydra even has sprinklers to cool the sensors.

Stitching the features together could show us the steps that turned the planet into an uninhabitable inferno.

Instead of an inferno, the infections will be more like embers, scattered in communities here and there, and harder to find.

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As Curdin moves nearer to the inferno he hears a cry for help coming from inside the building.

The box immediately melts into flames, leaving the body defenseless against the inferno.

This is but a mere campfire compared to the potential inferno awaiting us.

You go right straight into the inferno, and when you get older, you pull back.

The previous massive outrage inferno directed against a “fake” pro in the industry, before Zoe Quinn?

Their captivity was a pretty big story for a while, but then came September, and the inferno of Lower Manhattan.

Now Paradise and the Inferno are understood philosophically as states of being, not places on a chart.

Coronado inwardly cursed himself for venturing into this inferno, the haunting place of devils in human shape.

It was such an abyss as no artist has ever hinted, excepting Doré in his picturings of Dante's "Inferno."

Under the steam cloud was an inferno, but it was only occasionally visible as the wind tore rents in the vapor.

It seems hardly necessary to refer the reader to Dante, Inferno, xxxiii.

Thus to recall the witches' cauldron and the fires of the Inferno had an unfailing success as a stimulant to eloquence.

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