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Definition of Hades
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone.
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Greek Deity
Derivative terms: Hadean
2. Noun. (religion) the world of the dead. "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"
Generic synonyms: Fictitious Place, Imaginary Place, Mythical Place
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Terms within: Acheron, River Acheron, Cocytus, River Cocytus, Lethe, River Lethe, River Styx, Styx
Definition of Hades
1. n. The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave.
Definition of Hades
1. Proper noun. (Greek god) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother to Zeus, Poseidon ¹
2. Proper noun. (Greek mythology) the underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god ¹
3. Proper noun. In the Septuagint Bible, the Greek translation of Sheol ¹
4. Proper noun. Hell ¹
5. Noun. (plural of hade) ¹
6. Verb. (third-person singular of hade) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hades
1. hade [v] - See also: hade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hades
Literary usage of Hades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, William Sherwood Fox, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"A much more probable theory is that hades was given a being in the mind of the
... Hence hades was a nether Zeus, and exercised over the assembled souls a ..."
2. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"A much more probable theory is that hades was given a being in the mind of the
... Hence hades was a nether Zeus, and exercised over the assembled souls a ..."
3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1866)
"They go into hades—the invisible world. But this fact of their being absent from
our sight ... If they are in Heaven, they are in hades—a world invisible ..."
4. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"A much more probable theory is that hades was given a being in the mind of the
... Hence hades was a nether Zeus, and exercised over the assembled souls a ..."
5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1866)
"They go into hades—the invisible world. But this fact of their being absent from our
... If they are in Heaven, they are in hades—a world invisible to us. ..."
6. The First Age of Christianity and the Church by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (1867)
"in heaven and on earth but also those under the earth, the dead in hades, ...
This condition of man is locally designated hades, a word corresponding in the ..."
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