hell

Significat

Name

A place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death.

Noun

1. A place or situation of great suffering in life.
2. A place for gambling.
3. An extremely hot place.
4. Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
5. (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.
6. In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
7. (colloquial) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)

Intj

1. (colloquial) Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.
2. (colloquial) Used to emphasize.
3. (colloquial) Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.

Adv

1. Alternative form of the hell or like hell.
2. (colloquial) Very; used to emphasize strongly.

Verb

1. To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.
2. To hurry, rush.
3. To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.

Verb

To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).

Verb

To pour.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/hɛl/

Etimologia

From Middle English helle, from Old English hell, from Proto-West Germanic *hallju, from Proto-Germanic *haljō (“concealed place, netherworld”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal, save”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälle (“hell”), West Frisian hel (“hell”), Dutch hel (“hell”), German Low German Hell (“hell”), German Hölle (“hell”), Norwegian helvete (“hell”), Icelandic hel (“the abode of the dead, death”). Also related to the Hel of Germanic mythology. See also hele.