Definition of Hadean

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.

Exact synonyms: Plutonian, Tartarean
Similar to: Infernal
Derivative terms: Hades, Tartarus

2. Noun. The earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life.

Definition of Hadean

1. Adjective. (geology) Of, or relating to the geologic eon from about 4,600 to 3,800 million years ago; marked by the formation of the solar system, a stable Earth-Moon orbit and the first rocks. ¹

2. Noun. (geology) The Hadean eon. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hadean

Habronema megastoma
Habronema microstoma
Habronema muscae
Habs
Habsburg
Hachiman
Hackelia
Hackintosh
Hackintoshes
Hackney
Hacky-Sack
Hacky-Sacks
Had crime
Hadcock
Haddy
Hadean
Hadean aeon
Hadean eon
Hadean time
Hades
Hadgkiss
Hadhramauti
Hadhramautis
Hadramauti
Hadramautis
Hadrian
Hadrian's Wall
Hadrosauridae
Hadrurus
Hadza

Literary usage of Hadean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1882)
"Then there must be another hadean province, a place of torment and punishment, the place elsewhere named " Gehenna," because Gehenna was the public place of ..."

2. Is Hell Eternal: Or, Will God's Plan Fail? by Charles Hamilton Pridgeon (1920)
"This spiritual body goes with them into the hadean state, no matter how warped and dwarfed it may become. Each one that passes out of this life reaches the ..."

3. The Moriad: Or, End of the Jewish State by Ben Asaph, Anselm Korlstoff (1857)
"... meteors fill the sky, And heaven to earth proclaim, the hour is nigh ; For this end, let the hadean spirits come, And demons stir the heathen powers of ..."

4. The destiny of the wicked by A. M. Wilson (1878)
"raven, and the flame ; or, when vised in a figura- rative sense, the sentence to the darker region of the hadean world" (pp. 86,87). ..."

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