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tuonela — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • Hades proper noun In Greek mythology, the god of the underworld and ruler of the dead.
  • underworld noun The organized criminal side of society, especially those involved in serious or large-scale crime.

Senses

tuonela is used for these senses in English:

  • Hades Hell.
  • underworld (religion, or, mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.

Hades — full definition

  1. proper noun In Greek mythology, the god of the underworld and ruler of the dead.
  2. proper noun The underworld itself, the realm of the dead in Greek mythology; loosely, hell.

underworld — full definition

  1. noun The organized criminal side of society, especially those involved in serious or large-scale crime.
  2. noun In mythology, the world of the dead, imagined as existing beneath the world of the living.

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