Dante

[ dan-tee, dahn-tey; Italian dahn-te ]

noun

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

Dante

/ ˈdæntɪ; ˈdante; dænˈtiːən; ˈdɑːnteɪ; ˈdæntɪən; dænˈtɛsk /

noun

1. Dante12651321MItalianWRITING: poet 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

Dante

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.

Derived Forms

• Dantean, adjective

Example Sentences

But the magic of my walk — stretches of different trails, patchworked together, leading from Cadman Drive to Coolidge Trail to Hogback Trail to Dante’s View to Mount Hollywood — comes from my knowing it so intimately.

From Los Angeles Times

Dante Hunter, 25, who police say was the first to draw his gun, was charged with murder in Taylor’s death, and a third man, Damone Miller, 21, was charged with attempted murder.

From Seattle Times

Dante stretches his neck to see into the car.

From Literature

New York controlled possession early and eventually capitalized on a Miami defensive breakdown that resulted on Dante Vanzeir’s goal in the 30th minute.

From Seattle Times

Yet each has also done the opposite: Schubert, in his aptly nicknamed “Great” Symphony, with its Beethovenian heft, for example, and Adès in his hypnotic and weightless “Paradiso” section of “Dante.”

From New York Times