#982. Hell. -- N. hell, bottomless pit, place of torment; habitation of fallen angels; Pandemonium, Abaddon[obs], Domdaniel; jahannan[obs], sheol[obs].
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.
[Mythological hell] Tartarus, Hades, Avernus[Lat], Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron[obs], Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto.
Pluto, Rhadamanthus[obs], Erebus[Lat]; Tophet.
Adj. hellish, infernal, stygian.
Phr. dies irae dies illa[Lat]; "the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night" [Love's Labor's Lost].