English Explanatory Dictionary

Hades

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
  2. The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.
  3. In the Septuagint Bible, the Greek translation of Sheol.
  4. Hell.
  5. Hell as a waiting place for damned souls before the Last Judgement, after which they may be cast in Gehenna.
noun
  1. plural of hade
verb
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hade

Pronunciation

/ˈheɪdiːz/ /ˈhadiːz/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Hades.wav

Word forms

Hades

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Related words

Gehenna Hell Pluto Tartarus

Translations

Albanian: Hadi Arabic: هَادِيس Arabic: هيدز Armenian: Հադես Asturian: Hades Azerbaijani: Aid Belarusian: Аід Belarusian: Га́дэс Bengali: হেডিস Bengali: হাদেস Breton: Haides Bulgarian: Хадес Bulgarian: ад Burmese: ဟေးဒီးစ် Catalan: Hades Chinese Cantonese: 哈帝斯 Chinese Mandarin: 哈得斯 Chinese Mandarin: 哈迪斯 Chinese Mandarin: 地獄 /地狱 Chinese Mandarin: 地府 Chinese Mandarin: 陰間 /阴间 Coptic: Ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ Czech: Hádes Dutch: Hades Esperanto: Hadeso Esperanto: Aido Etruscan: 𐌀𐌉𐌕𐌀 Finnish: Haades Finnish: tuonela French: Hadès Galician: Hades Georgian: ჰადესი German: Hades Greek: Άδης Greek: Τάρταρα Greek: κόλαση Ancient Greek: ᾍδης Hebrew: האדס Hindi: हेडीस Hungarian: Hádész Irish: Háidéas Italian: Ade Japanese: ハーデース Japanese: 黄泉 Japanese: 地獄 Kazakh: Аид Korean: 하데스 Korean: 지옥 Latvian: Aīds Lithuanian: Hadas Macedonian: Ад Malayalam: ഹേഡിസ് Marathi: हेडीस Mazanderani: هادس Occitan: Ades
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