hell
any place of pain and turmoil
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,970 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 9,127 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- any place of pain and turmoil also: hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno the hell of battlethe inferno of the engine room
- a cause of difficulty and suffering also: blaze war is hellgo to blazes
- (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment also: perdition, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, pit Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwella demon from the depths of the pit
- (religion) the world of the dead also: Hades, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth
- noisy and unrestrained mischief also: blaze raising blazes
hell in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He says too ('scuse me, Teacher), 'Go to hell!'
Little Citizens: The Humours of School Life · Myra Kelly · Chapter 1
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And twenty men pushed to the boy to follow him into hell.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Cobbett has done well: You visit him on earth again, He'll visit you in hell.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement — No. 474 · Various · Chapter 1
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May he see horrors that do not exist--what the wicked dead dream in their frigid hell!
The Eternal Maiden · T. Everett (Thomas Everett) Harré · Chapter 1
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I--I, the abandoned, the betrayed,--what dark memories were on my soul, what a hell boiled within my bosom!
Lucretia — Volume 06 · Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · Chapter 1