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tartarus

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Noun
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Tar=ta=rus

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun tartarus has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

tartarusprop. n. [L., from Gr. Ta`rtaros.].
     The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tartarus, n. (in Greek mythology):
1 an abyss below Hades where the Titans were confined.
2 a place of punishment in Hades.

Derivative
Tartarean adj.
Etymology
L f. Gk Tartaros

ROGET THESAURUS

tartarus

Hell

N hell, bottomless pit, place of torment, habitation of fallen angels, Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel, jahannan, sheol, 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, Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus, infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto, Pluto, Rhadamanthus, Erebus, Tophet, hellish, infernal, stygian, dies irae dies illa, the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night.

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