Dante

American  

[dan-tee, dahn-tey, dahn-te] / ˈdæn ti, ˈdɑn teɪ, ˈdɑn tɛ /

noun

1. Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321, Italian poet: author of the Divine Comedy.

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Dante British  

/ ˈdæntɪ, ˈdante, dænˈtiːən, ˈdɑːnteɪ, ˈdæntɪən, dænˈtɛsk /

noun

1. full name Dante Alighieri ( Italian aliˈɡjɛːri). 1265–1321, Italian poet famous for La Divina Commedia (?1309–?1320), an allegorical account of his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, guided by Virgil and his idealized love Beatrice. His other works include La Vita Nuova (?1292), in which he celebrates his love for Beatrice

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Dante Cultural  

1. An Italian poet of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; his full name was Dante Alighieri. Dante is remembered for his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, an epic about hell, purgatory, and heaven. The Divine Comedy was written as a memorial to Beatrice, a woman whom Dante loved and who died at an early age.

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Other Word Forms

• Dantean adjective

Example Sentences

The building is called the Virgil, which indicates that at least someone in the filmmaking process has heard of Dante’s “Inferno,” in which the Roman poet appears as hell’s tour guide.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sereni, who recited cantos from Dante in Italian to calm his nerves, was offered a British alias for the parachuting mission.

From The Wall Street Journal

After his two homer-performance against Brazil on Saturday, outfielder Dante Nori revealed that he doesn’t even like coffee—an admission that would cause any self-respecting Italian to choke on his biscotto.

From The Wall Street Journal

Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.

From Salon

Quarterbacks tend to earn the most, with Texas’s Arch Manning having an NIL value of $5.6 million, and Oregon’s Dante Moore enjoying an NIL valuation at an estimated $3 million a year.

From MarketWatch