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- DictionaryIn·fer·no/inˈfərnō/
noun
- 1. a large fire that is dangerously out of control: "the inferno had swept through the city"
- 2. hell (with reference to Dante's Divine Comedy).
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noun. /ɪnˈfɜːnəʊ/. /ɪnˈfɜːrnəʊ/. [usually singular] (plural infernos) a very large dangerous fire that is out of control. a blazing/raging inferno. The flames quickly turned the house into a raging inferno. Three men managed to escape from the inferno.
An inferno is a huge fire that's difficult to control, like an inferno that burns down a whole city block. Inferno also can describe any horrible place where people suffer.
Inferno definition: hell; the infernal regions.. See examples of INFERNO used in a sentence.
1 day ago · noun Word forms: plural -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. 3. (cap, italics) the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, depicting hell and the suffering of the damned.
Definition of inferno noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
May 3, 2024 · 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. 3. (cap, italics) the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, depicting hell and the suffering of the damned. Compare paradise (sense 7), purgatory (sense 2)
inferno. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English in‧fer‧no /ɪnˈfɜːnəʊ $ -ɜːrnoʊ/ noun (plural infernos) [ countable] 1 an extremely large and dangerous fire – used especially in news reports raging/blazing inferno Within minutes, the house had become a raging inferno. see thesaurus at fire 2 literary when someone has very ...
