What is "hell" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does hell mean in English? Meaning of hell definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "hell" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "hell": any place of pain and turmoil

Noun

  • Meaning: any place of pain and turmoil
  • Example: the hell of battle the inferno of the engine room when you're alone Christmas is the pits
  • Synonyms: hell hell on earth hellhole inferno snake pit the pits
  • Hypernyms: part region
  • Meaning of "hell": a cause of difficulty and suffering

    Noun

  • Meaning: a cause of difficulty and suffering
  • Example: war is hell go to blazes
  • Synonyms: blaze hell
  • Hypernyms: trouble
  • Meaning of "hell": (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment

    Noun

  • Meaning: (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment
  • Example: Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell a demon from the depths of the pit Hell is paved with good intentions
  • Synonyms: hell infernal region inferno nether region perdition pit
  • Hyponyms: gehenna hellfire red region tartarus
  • Hypernyms: fictitious place imaginary place mythical place
  • Antonyms: heaven
  • Meaning of "hell": (religion) the world of the dead

    Noun

  • Meaning: (religion) the world of the dead
  • Example: No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth
  • Synonyms: hades hell infernal region netherworld scheol underworld
  • Hypernyms: fictitious place imaginary place mythical place
  • Part Holonyms: acheron cocytus lethe river acheron river cocytus river lethe river styx styx
  • Meaning of "hell": violent and excited activity

    Noun

  • Meaning: violent and excited activity
  • Example: they began to fight like sin
  • Synonyms: hell sin
  • Hypernyms: activity
  • Meaning of "hell": noisy and unrestrained mischief

    Noun

  • Meaning: noisy and unrestrained mischief
  • Example: raising blazes
  • Synonyms: blaze hell
  • Hypernyms: devilment devilry deviltry mischief mischief-making mischievousness rascality roguery roguishness shenanigan
  • Adjective: In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death Do Muslims believe that all non-Muslims go to hell?(Abrahamic religions, uncountable) The place where devils live and where sinners are tortured after death May you rot in hell! 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.
  • Synonyms:

    nightmare, purgatory, inferno, misery, abyss, ordeal, underworld, difficulty, agony, perdition, trial, suffering, torment, grave, affliction, pandemonium, anguish, wretchedness, pit, limbo, bottomless pit, fire and brimstone, nether world, Gehenna, blazes, Hades, Abaddon, everlasting fire, hell-fire, infernal regions, lower world, place of torment,

    Antonyms:

    happiness, calm, contentment, health, joy, heaven, pleasure, peace, comfort,

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