| Definitions | noun
- (countable) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- My new boss is making my job a .
- 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 .
- (countable) A place for gambling.
- 1907, w:Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
- ... the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; ...
Translations: - Dutch: hel(nl)
- French: enfer(fr)m
- German: Hí¶lle(de)f
- Spanish: infierno(es)m
proper noun
- In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death.
- (Christianity, uncountable) The place where devils live and where sinners are punished after death.
- May you rot in !
- 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.
Translations: - Dutch: hel(nl)
- French: enfer(fr)m
- German: Hí¶lle(de)f
- Italian: inferno(it)m
- Spanish: infierno(es)m
Etymology: (term, hel), (term, helle, , nether world, abode of the dead) < - (term, , khaljo, nether world, concealed place) < (PIE.)
- (term, , kel-, to cover, conceal, save).
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