hell

Noun

hell

1. In various religions, the place where sinners are said to go after death.
2. A place of great suffering in life.
3. Name of a town in several locations.
4. A place for gambling.

   ... the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses — Joseph Conrad

Antonyms:

• [[Heaven]]

4 letters in word "hell": E H L L.

No anagrams for hell found in this word list.

Words found within hell:

eh el ell he

• Definitions:
• any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits"; a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes" (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit" Hel: (religion) the world of the dead; "he didn't want to go to hell when he died" sin: violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin" noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes"
• Hell, according to many religious beliefs, is an afterlife of suffering where the wicked or unrighteous dead are punished. Hells are almost always depicted as underground. In Christianity and Islam, hell is fiery. Hells from other traditions, however, are sometimes cold and gloomy. ...
• Hell is a Hieronymus Bosch painting made sometime after 1490. It is currently in the Palazzo Ducale, in Venice, Italy.
• Hell is a lunar crater that is located in the southern part of the Moon's near side, within the western half of the enormous Deslandres basin. To the southeast, also within the Deslandres basin, is the larger Lexell crater.
• "Hell" is the first episode of the second series of Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, and the 7th episode overall.
• Diyu (; ??, jigoku, literally "earth prison") is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology. ...
• The word used in English translations of the Bible for both the Hebrew Sheol (the place of the departed) and the Greek Gehenna (the place of punishment for the wicked after death). ...
• niraya (qv).
• is a state of mind which can include the effects of their improper understanding of Divine Mind and Christian Science Principles. Hell is not a literal place of damnation and eternal torment. Hell exists when a person’s thoughts are out of harmony with the reality of Divine Mind. ...
• It was believed that after death everyone went to Hel, the realm of the dead, except for certain select warriors who would be raised up to Valhalla. Thus, Hel was inhabited by women, children and men who died ignobly. ...
• The place of eternal punishment, of extreme torment, etc.; the abode of evil spirits
• Anarchy in heaven, especially in hada, the lowest heaven, where angels torment one another. When an earthly tyrant dies, evil spirits seize his newborn spirit for vengeance's sake, and cast him into hell.
• In the New Testament, hell is the place of judgment where God sends all evildoers to face fiery torture and everlasting punishment.
• Hell symbolizes a place of suffering and torment. Someone who dreams of hell may be suffering from a seemingly inescapable situation caused by having given away his or her emotional power to someone else.
• Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the engineers are German, the administrators are Swiss and the lovers are Italian. Hell is where the police are German, the cooks are British, the engineers are Italian, the administrators are French and the lovers are Swiss.

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