noun
the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑fictional character, ↑fictitious character, ↑character
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/bee"euh tris, bee"tris/ for 1, 3; /bee a"tris/ for 2; for 1, 3 also It. /be'ah trddee"che/, n.
1. (in Dante's Vita Nuova and Divine Comedy) a symbolic figure developed from the person whom Dante first saw as a child and loved as an ideal of womanhood.
2. a city in SE Nebraska. 12,891.
3. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning "one who brings joy."
Useful english dictionary. 2012.