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BEATRICE

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• BEATRICE (noun)
The noun BEATRICE has 1 sense:

1. the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy

Familiarity information: BEATRICE used as a noun is very rare.

• BEATRICE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

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