DANTE ALIGHIERI

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• DANTE ALIGHIERI (noun)
  The noun DANTE ALIGHIERI 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 ALIGHIERI used as a noun is very rare.

• DANTE ALIGHIERI (noun)

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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))