infernoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɪnˈfɝnoʊ/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)nəʊ

名詞

inferno (plural infernos)

1. A place or situation resembling Hell.
   • 1899, D. C. Worcester, The Philippine Islands and Their People:

     At each sudden explosion in the inferno below they sprang back from the brink [of the volcanic crater].

   • 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle:

     When Jurgis had first inspected the packing plants with Szedvilas, he […] found that each one of these lesser industries was a separate little inferno, in its way as horrible as the killing beds, the source and fountain of them all[, and t]he workers in each of them had their own peculiar diseases.

2. A large fire; a conflagration.

   The inferno ripped through the forest, destroying anything in its path.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎:

     Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within, […] most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.

   • 2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 34:59 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?‎, archived from the original on 8 August 2022:

     Unfortunately for Admiral Kurita, this is where the good news ends. The fire started by New Jersey's hit amidships has spread, and there is now a towering inferno that occupies the middle third of the Japanese battleship.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:afterlife

派生語

• towering inferno

関連する語

• infernal

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inferno”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “inferno”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Fronnie, nonfire

名詞

īnfernō m

1. dative/ablative singular of īnfernus