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τάρταρα — meaning in English

Tartara

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English meaning

  • abyss noun A very deep, seemingly bottomless chasm or void.
  • 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

τάρταρα is used for these senses in English:

  • Hades (Greek mythology) The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.
  • abyss Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  • underworld (religion, or, mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.

abyss — full definition

  1. noun A very deep, seemingly bottomless chasm or void.
  2. noun A situation or state of overwhelming trouble, hopelessness, or ruin.

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.

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