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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits"; [syn: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno]
2: a very intense and uncontrolled fire [syn: conflagration, inferno]
3: (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"; "Hell is paved with good intentions"-Dr. Johnson [syn: Hell, perdition, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, pit] [ant: Heaven]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -nos) Etymology: Italian, hell, from Late Latin infernus Date: 1834 a place or a state that resembles or suggests hell <the inferno of war>; also an intense fire ; conflagration <a raging inferno>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -os) 1 a raging fire. 2 a scene of horror or distress. 3 hell, esp. with ref. to Dante's Divine Comedy. Etymology: It. f. LL infernus (as INFERNAL)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inferno In*fer"no, n. [It. See Infernal.] The infernal regions; hell. Also used fig. At each sudden explosion in the inferno below they sprang back from the brink [of the volcanic crater]. --D. C. Worcester.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(infernos) If you refer to a fire as an inferno, you mean that it is burning fiercely and causing great destruction. (JOURNALISM) Rescue workers fought to get to victims inside the inferno. N-COUNT: usu sing

Moby Thesaurus

Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, Naraka, Pandemonium, Sheol, Tophet, Torrid Zone, abyss, avichi, blazes, conflagration, equator, furnace, hades, hell, holocaust, infernal regions, jahannan, limbo, lower world, nether world, netherworld, oven, perdition, pit, place of torment, purgatory, shades below, steam bath, subtropics, the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, tropics, underworld