an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)
<noun.person>

Dante

Dante Alighieri

English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (1828-1882)
<noun.person>

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Rossetti

of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings
<adj.pert>

Dantean

Dantesque

of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings
<adj.pert>

Dantean

Dantesque

French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794)
<noun.person>

Danton

Georges Jacques Danton

United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
<noun.person>

Cy Young

Danton True Young

Young

Celtic goddess who was the mother of the Tuatha De Danann; identified with the Welsh Don
<noun.person>

Dana

Danu

the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea
<noun.object>

Danau

Danube

Danube River

sample sentences

"Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube"

the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea
<noun.object>

Danau

Danube

Danube River

sample sentences

"Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube"

a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century
<noun.location>

Danzig

Gdansk

philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events
<noun.cognition>

Daoism

Taoism

(Greek mythology) a nymph who was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the amorous Apollo
<noun.person>

Daphne

widely cultivated low evergreen shrub with dense clusters of fragrant pink to deep rose flowers
<noun.plant>

Daphne cneorum

garland flower

English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989)
<noun.person>

Dame Daphne du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier

du Maurier

bushy Eurasian shrub with glossy leathery oblong leaves and yellow-green flowers
<noun.plant>

Daphne laureola

spurge laurel

wood laurel

small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs
<noun.plant>

Daphne mezereum

February daphne

mezereon

a mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir; the 2nd highest peak in the world (28,250 feet high)
<noun.object>

Dapsang

Godwin Austen

K2

Mount Godwin Austen

areas where Muslims are in the majority
<noun.location>

Dar al-Islam

House of Islam

areas where Muslims are in the minority and are persecuted
<noun.location>

Dar al-harb

House of War

the capital and largest port city of Tanzania on the Indian Ocean
<noun.location>

Dar es Salaam

capital of Tanzania

any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan
<noun.communication>

Dard

Dardic

Dardic language

a native of ancient Troy
<noun.person>

Dardan

Dardanian

Trojan

the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks
<noun.act>

Dardanelles

Dardanelles campaign

the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey
<noun.location>

Canakkale Bogazi

Dardanelles

Hellespont

the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks
<noun.act>

Dardanelles

Dardanelles campaign

a native of ancient Troy
<noun.person>

Dardan

Dardanian

Trojan

(Greek mythology) founder of Troy
<noun.person>

Dardanus

any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan
<noun.communication>

Dard

Dardic

Dardic language

any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan
<noun.communication>

Dard

Dardic

Dardic language

an impoverished region of western Sudan
<noun.location>

Darfur

sample sentences

"Darfur was a semi-independent sultanate until 1917 and is ethnically distinct from central Sudan"

an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan
<noun.communication>

Dari

Dari Persian