HELL

Hell

In many mythological, folklore and religious traditions, hell is a place of eternal torment in an afterlife, often after resurrection. It is viewed by most Abrahamic traditions as a place of punishment. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations. Typically these traditions locate hell in another dimension or under the Earth's external surface and often include entrances to Hell from the land of the living. Other afterlife destinations include Heaven, Purgatory, Paradise, and Limbo.

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hell

Noun

  1. 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.
  2. A place for gambling.
  3. An extremely hot place.
    You don't have a snowball's chance in hell.
    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.
  4. A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
  5. In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

Interjection

  1. Used to express negative discontent.
    Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.
  2. Used to emphasize
    Hell, yeah!


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