Beatrice (bēă'trĭs), city (1990 pop. 12,354), seat of Gage co., SE Nebr., on the Big Blue River; inc. as a city 1873. On the old Oregon Trail, it is the trading and industrial center for a grain, dairy, and livestock area. Manufactures include tools, concrete, metal, and wood products, machinery, processed food, and animal feed. Nearby is the Homestead National Monument of America (see National Parks and Monuments, table).
Beatrice
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a woman who guided Dante through Paradise in The Divine Comedy
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People
- Beatrice (given name)
- Beatrix (fl. 4th century), one of Roman martyrs Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix
- Beatrice d'Este (1192–1226), French political-family member
- Beatrice of Savoy (1198–1266), Italian political-family member
- Beatrice of Nazareth (1200–1268), Flemish religious leader
- Beatrice of Portugal (disambiguation), Princesses of Portugal
- Beatrice (1266–1290), Beatrice Portinari, Italian acquaintance of Dante
- Beatritz de Dia (fl. late 12th century), French political-family member & musician
- Beatrix d'Ornacieux (c. 1240– c. 1308), French religious leader
- Queen Beatrice of Hungary (fl. late 15th century), aka Beatrix of Aragon, Italian born
- Beatrice de Coligny (born 1572), Countess d'Entremont
- Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857–1944)
- Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh, Saxe-Coburg, and Gotha (1884–1966)
- Beatrix of the Netherlands (born 1938), ruler
- Béatrice (fl. c. 2000), Béatrice Poulot, French singer from Réunion
- Princess Beatrice of York (born 1988)
- Beatrice Chirita (born 1976), Romanian model
- Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling, aeronautical engineer and motorcyclist
Fictional characters
- Beatrice, a soul in Dante's Divine Comedy who guides Dante out of Purgatory and through Heaven. This soul allegorically represents theology, but is based on a real person, Beatrice Portinari
- In plays:
- Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing
- Beatrice Carbone, in A View from the Bridge
- Beatrice Baudelaire
- Beatrice, in comic Gunslinger Girl
- Beatrice, witch in game Umineko no Naku Koro ni
- Beatrice Rappaccini, title character of short story "Rappaccini's Daughter"
Other uses
- Places:
- Companies:
- Beatrice Foods
- Beatrice International Models, agency based in Italy
- Beatrice (band)
- Beatrice (psychedelic), drug
- Titled expressive works:
- "Beatrice", song from Sam Rivers's time with Blue Note
- Beatrice (film), 1987
- Beatrice (painting), 1960
- Ships:
Beatrice Walldova
See also
- "Beatrijs", Dutch poem
- Saint Beatrice (disambiguation)
- Princess Beatrice (disambiguation)
- Beatrix (disambiguation)
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