Hades

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Ha=des

CIDE DICTIONARY

Hades, n. [Gr. "a',dhs, "A'idhs; 'a priv. + 'idei^n to see. Cf. Un-, Wit.].

 The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave.  [1913 Webster]
"And death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them."  [1913 Webster]
"Neither was he left in Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption."  [1913 Webster]
"And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Hades, n. (in Greek mythology) the underworld, the abode of the spirits of the dead.

Etymology

Gk haides, orig. a name of Pluto

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Hades

n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where the dead live.
Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way. Indeed, the Elysian Fields themselves were a part of Hades, though they have since been removed to Paris. When the Jacobean version of the New Testament was in process of evolution the pious and learned men engaged in the work insisted by a majority vote on translating the Greek word "Aides" as "Hell"; but a conscientious minority member secretly possessed himself of the record and struck out the objectional word wherever he could find it. At the next meeting, the Bishop of Salisbury, looking over the work, suddenly sprang to his feet and said with considerable excitement: "Gentlemen, somebody has been razing 'Hell' here!" Years afterward the good prelate's death was made sweet by the reflection that he had been the means (under Providence) of making an important, serviceable and immortal addition to the phraseology of the English tongue.

THESAURUS

Hades

Abaddon, Acheron, Agdistis, Aides, Aidoneus, Amenti, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Aralu, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Cerberus, Ceres, Charon, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Gehenna, Great Mother, Hel, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Loki, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Minos, Mithras, Momus, Naraka, Neptune, Niflheim, Niflhel, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Osiris, Pandemonium, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Rhea, Satan, Saturn, Sheol, Tartarus, Tellus, Tophet, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, avichi, hell, infernal regions, inferno, jahannan, limbo, lower world, nether world, perdition, pit of Acheron, place of torment, purgatory, shades below, the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, underworld

ROGET THESAURUS

Hades

Hell

N hell, bottomless pit, place of torment, habitation of fallen angels, Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel, jahannan, sheol, hell fire, everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation, lake of fire and brimstone, fire that is never quenched, worm that never dies, purgatory, limbo, gehenna, abyss, Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus, infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto, Pluto, Rhadamanthus, Erebus, Tophet, hellish, infernal, stygian, dies irae dies illa, the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night.