inferno

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=fer=no

CIDE DICTIONARY

inferno, n. [It. See Infernal.].

•  The infernal regions; hell.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A raging fire.  [PJC]

  "At each sudden explosion in the inferno below they sprang back from the brink [of the volcanic crater]."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inferno, 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)

THESAURUS

inferno

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

ROGET THESAURUS

inferno

Hell

N hell, bottomless pit, place of torment, habitation of fallen angels, Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel, jahannan, sheol, hell fire, everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation, lake of fire and brimstone, fire that is never quenched, worm that never dies, purgatory, limbo, gehenna, abyss, Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus, infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto, Pluto, Rhadamanthus, Erebus, Tophet, hellish, infernal, stygian, dies irae dies illa, the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night.