Άδης — 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
Άδης is used for these senses in English:
- Hades (Greek god) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
- Hades (Greek mythology) The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.
- underworld (religion, or, mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.
Hades — full definition
- proper noun In Greek mythology, the god of the underworld and ruler of the dead.
- proper noun The underworld itself, the realm of the dead in Greek mythology; loosely, hell.
underworld — full definition
- noun The organized criminal side of society, especially those involved in serious or large-scale crime.
- noun In mythology, the world of the dead, imagined as existing beneath the world of the living.