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Meaning of "Dantean" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DANTEAN

Dantean  [ˈdæntɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DANTEAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dantean is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DANTEAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dantean

Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In Italy he is called il Sommo Poeta and il Poeta. He, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called "the three fountains" and "the three crowns". Dante is also called "the Father of the Italian language".

Definition of Dantean in the English dictionary

The definition of Dantean in the dictionary is of or relating to Dante, the Italian poet, or reminiscent of his allegorical account of a journey through Hell in La Divina Commedia.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DANTEAN


adamantean
ˌædəˈmæntɪən
anti-Christian
ˌæntɪˈkrɪstɪən
bastion
ˈbæstɪən
Brechtian
ˈbrɛxtɪən
Corybantian
ˌkɒrɪˈbæntɪən
countian
ˈkaʊntɪən
Faustian
ˈfaʊstɪən
fustian
ˈfʌstɪən
Gravettian
ɡrəˈvɛtɪən
Judaeo-Christian
dʒuːˌdeɪəʊˈkrɪstɪən
Kantian
ˈkæntɪən
Lovecraftian
ˈlʌvˌkrɑːftɪən
Numantian
njuːˈmæntɪən
Philistian
fɪˈlɪstɪən
Procrustean
prəʊˈkrʌstɪən
Proustian
ˈpruːstɪən
Shahaptian
ʃəˈhæptɪən
strontian
ˈstrɒntɪən
Tahitian
təˈhiːtɪən
teleostean
ˌtelɪˈɒstɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DANTEAN

Dankworth
Danmark
Dannebrog
dannies
danny
Dano-Norwegian
danse macabre
danseur
danseuse
Dante
Dantesque
danthonia
Danton
Danube
Danubian
Danzig

WORDS THAT END LIKE DANTEAN

arbutean
Atlantean
costean
gigantean
insectean
Mozartean
Nabatean
nemertean
protean
stean
Thyestean

Synonyms and antonyms of Dantean in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Dantean» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DANTEAN

Find out the translation of Dantean to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Dantean from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Dantean» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

但丁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dantesco
570 millions of speakers

English

Dantean
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Dantean
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Dantean
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Dantean
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dantesco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Dantean
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dantesque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dantean
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dantesken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Dantean
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Dantean
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dantean
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Dantean
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Dantean
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दांतेआण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dantean
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dantesco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dantejskiej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Dantean
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dantescă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Dantean
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Dantean
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Dantean
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Dantean
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Dantean

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DANTEAN»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DANTEAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Dantean

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DANTEAN»

Discover the use of Dantean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Dantean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dantean Dialogues: Engaging with the Legacy of Amilcare Iannucci
, These essays enter into conversation with the main themes of the scholarship of Amilcare Iannucci (d. 2007), one of the leading researchers on Dante of his generation and arguably Canada's finest scholar of the Italian poet.
Maggie Kilgour, Elena Lombardi, 2013
2
Professing Poetry: Seamus Heaney’s Poetics
There is something else about this poem. The connection between the Dantean style and Heaney's conception of the masculine mode of writing has been mentioned. It is apparent here, for the poem is about a fourteen-year-old coming into his ...
Michael Cavanagh, 2009
3
Dantean Echoes:
Consolo's. "trista. conca": Dantean. anagnorisis. and. echo. in. II. sorriso. dell' ignoto. marinaio. E Virgilio. . . Ma che dico?Di echi parlavamo. V. ConsololSM, 143]1 1. "L'isola delfoco"- the Consolation of Dante Vincenzo Consolo's volume of ...
Giuliana Adamo, 2003
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A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's The Changing Light at ...
Mirabell: Books. of. Number. (1978). STEPHEN. YENSER. Dantean. Andante. The dust jacket refers to James Merrill's Mirabell: Books of Number as the sequel to The Book of Ephraim (in Divine Comedies), but the poem implies several times  ...
Robert Polito, 1994
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Dantean Dialogues: Engaging with the Legacy of Amilcare Iannucci
, These essays enter into conversation with the main themes of the scholarship of Amilcare Iannucci (d. 2007), one of the leading researchers on Dante of his generation and arguably Canada’s finest scholar of the Italian poet.
Margaret (Maggie) Kilgour, Elena Lombardi, 2013
6
Religion and the Muse: The Vexed Relation Between Religion ...
Chapter. 3. A. Literary. Critique. of. Religion. The. Dantean. Line. Ascetic censoriousness is not the only means religion has to subordinate literature. Religion can claim to be the historic origin of literature. Polytheistic religious rites provided the ...
Ernest Rubinstein
7
Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness
It is frequently suggested, both in Murdoch's philosophical works and in her novels, that sexual desire and the bodily component in love are sins in the Dantean sense, that is, sources of egoistic self-delusion and self-immersion that persistently ...
Maria Antonaccio, William Schweiker, 1996
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Seeing Together: Friendship Between the Sexes in English ...
Further, in deferring to the opinion of the Pope, Dantean readers oddly duplicate the process of the obviously culpable Roman judicial system — which first determines "guilt enough / To be compatible with innocence" ("Giuseppe Caponsacchi ...
Victor Luftig, 1995
9
Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative
For those among the living, like Stephen in "Aeolus," "selfhood" is an activity of overhearing, remembering, and speaking in fragments, thus fracturing the symbolic whole of the Dantean classic, disturbing the peace, breaking out of the closed ...
Patrick O'Donnell, 1992
10
Why Machiavelli Matters: A Guide to Citizenship in a Democracy
generic romance opening of the narrative in Chapter 2, ''When the bright spring returns ... ,'' soon gives way to a specific Dantean echo, when the narrator suddenly finds himself in a dark wooded dale. The Machiavellian appropriation of  ...
John D. Bernard, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DANTEAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Dantean is used in the context of the following news items.
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Alex la Guma's neglected legacy
With a nod to his interest in the classics, Johns said: “At the risk of sounding too Dantean, La Guma has truly been the Statius to my Virgil. «Independent Online, Jun 15»
2
Column: Thoughts of Dixie and a chance for change
... and—most importantly, in this place of invective-laced cacophony—hushed house of worship just across the parade field from those Dantean ... «Fredericksburg.com, Jun 15»
3
The Dantean Anomaly
Brown calls it the Dantean Anomaly, because the bad weather continued ... Although little known, the Dantean Anomaly with its subsequent ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
4
Feature: The End of TV
It's generally agreed among filmmakers that the most terrible part of filmmaking is “development hell”—the Dantean levels of rewriting and ... «Pacific Sun, Jun 15»
5
POPULAR FICTION
Glossy (think U.S. Vogue) has become an online-only publication and Imogen, an internet dinosaur, is plunged into various circles of Dantean ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
6
Queen of the damned
... Pinhead, and fallen dark angel Lucifer, all fighting for supremacy in Barker's Dantean-Boschian underworld. The battle is an epic blockbuster, ... «Bay Area Reporter, Jun 15»
7
Alexander McQueen play: James Phillips on bringing the fashion …
“She can [represent] what he's thinking, or his worst fears; she can be his companion on this strange Dantean journey through hell,” explains ... «The Independent, May 15»
8
St. Charles N. edge Glenbard West for West Aurora title
St. Charles North's Luke Dantean returns a serve in his No. 1 doubles match against Oswego East during Saturday's tennis invite at West ... «Chicago Daily Herald, May 15»
9
The Salt of the Earth
The man who took these Dantean photographs — black and white as though forged out of steel — is Sebastião Salgado, the subject of the ... «National Catholic Reporter, Apr 15»
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Review: Kinetic Theatre's 'Dance of Death' trip to hell and back
Strindberg's Edgar and Alice are in the midst of a Dantean stroll, with the distant inferno the only touch of warmth to their icy relationship. «Tribune-Review, Apr 15»

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