INFERNO


Meaning of INFERNO in English

ə̇nˈfər(ˌ)nō, -ˈfə̄(ˌ)-, -ˈfəi(ˌ)- noun

( -s )

Etymology: Italian, hell (especially as the title of one of the books of the Divina Commedia, long allegorical & philosophical poem by Dante Alighieri died 1321 Italian poet), from Late Latin infernus — more at infernal

1. : a place or a state of torment and suffering

the inferno of the passions — Edmund Wilson

inferno of war

inferno of seething misery and poverty — G.B.Shaw

2. : a place that resembles or suggests hell in being dark, noisy, chaotic, lawless

the factory seemed an inferno of dirt and noise

plunge into the inferno of the engine room — Joseph Whitehill

3. : intense heat

roaring inferno of the blast furnace

: conflagration

girders melted in the inferno

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.