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Definition of 'hell'Alternative forms
* (Christianity) Hell
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Proper noun
( en-proper noun)
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.
Synonyms
* (euphemisms for Christian place for damned souls after death) Hades, heck, infernal region, inferno, netherworld, underworld
* (Mormonism) Spirit]] [[prison|Prison
Antonyms
* (sense) heaven
Noun
( en-noun)
(countable|hyperbole) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- My new boss is making my job a hell .
- I went through hell to get home today.
* 1879 , General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy
- There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell .
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(countable) A place for gambling.
* W. Black
- a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless
* 1907 , (Joseph Conrad), The Secret Agent
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An extremely hot place.
- You don't have a snowball's chance in hell .
(Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun)
- I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.
- What the hell is wrong with you?
- He says he's going home early? Like hell he is.
(obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
- (Hudibras)
In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
Derived terms
* as hell
* forty minutes of hell
* hell and half of Georgia
* hella
* hellagood
* hell-fire
* hell for leather
* hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
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* hellish
* hell on earth
* hell on wheels
* hell's delight
* hellspawn
* hell to pay
* hell week
* like hell
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* living hell
* no screaming hell
* the hell
* the hell out of
* the hell with it
* to hell with
* what the hell
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Interjection
( en-interj)
- Oh, hell ! I got another parking ticket.
- Hell , yeah!
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