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Dante

Syllables: Dan·teUK/ˈdænti/US/ˈdɑnteɪ/

Dante proper noun: a male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.

Proper noun

Dante

  1. A male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.
    • Scattered around the contemporary city are thirty other plaques with passages from the Comedy , evoking a range of places Dante had known and moments and persons he had known or heard about in his thirty-five years of Florentine life:2001 July 29, R. W. B. Lewis, “'Dante'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022

Dante meaning in Hindi, Arabic and Thai

Dante in Hindi

male given name
दांते dānte

Dante in Arabic

male given name
دانتي

Dante in Thai

male given name
ดันเต

Origin of Dante

Borrowed from Italian Dànte, a reduced form of Durànte.

Words formed from Dante

Phrases with Dante

Words that rhyme with Dante

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Questions about Dante

What does Dante mean?
Dante means a male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.
What is Dante in Hindi?
Dante in Hindi is दांते (dānte). See Dante meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Dante?
Dante is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Dante?
Dante is pronounced /ˈdænti/ (UK).

Words near Dante in the dictionary

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  9. Dantean
  10. Danteism
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dante (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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