Hell
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4.4
- noun
- /hɛl/
:
infierno
- Many believe that sinners will face eternal punishment in hell after death.
- heaven and hell
- go to hell
- circles of hell
I'll see you in hell with these two guys.
- I'll see you in hell with these two guys.
- And Jesus said he created hell for the angels, not for humans.
- But yeah, you know, they believe in heaven, hell, Satan, all of that stuff.
- No, he believes in heaven and hell, this whole shtick.
- For Dante, the bottom of hell was filled with betrayers.
- And he had this little ditty of to fathom hell or saw angelic.
- That, that is that's a special place in hell, regardless of if you're getting people off.
Examples
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Trying to save their souls from the fiery depths of hell.
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For Dante, the bottom of hell was filled with betrayers.
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As a child, she had heard that there was another hell which burned beyond this world.
Fiction book (1991) -
And Jesus said he created hell for the angels, not for humans.
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A lot of theologians have framed hell in terms of separation from God.
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And you are going to end up in hell if you don't start believing what the Church teaches us.
Fiction book (1990) -
The idea of hell as a place of suffering is common in many religious teachings.
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In literature, hell is often depicted as a fiery realm inhabited by demons.
Synonyms
62
9.9
A place of punishment and suffering after death in Christian belief
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7.2
A place where souls go after death in myths
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8.5
A place of burning where people suffer forever after death
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8.8
A place of punishment after death for very bad people in Christian belief
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9.9
A state of never ending suffering after death, like hell
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9.9
A place of suffering for the dead in religious stories
A place of fire and suffering where bad people are punished after death
The place of the dead in Greek myths where souls go after death
A place believed to be for punishment after death or a very bad situation
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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8.8
A person or thing that is very active, hard to control and often aggressive
- Informal
1
9.5
For a very long time, often to say something will never happen
- Informal
1
7.9
A sudden time when many people lose control and chaos starts
Compounds
- Jargon
A situation where too many nested callbacks make code hard to read and change
How Punishing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hell comes from an old German word hel meaning 'hidden' or 'covered', and it was also the name Hel for a Norse goddess and her world of the dead. So Hell became the name for the place where the dead, and later sinners, were thought to suffer after death.