Definitions for Hades

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Hades Ha·des

Spelling: [hey-deez]

IPA: /ˈheɪ diz/

Hades is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in Hades (adehs).

Definitions for Hades

noun

1. Classical Mythology. the underworld inhabited by departed souls. the god ruling the underworld; Pluto.
2. (in the Revised Version of the New Testament) the abode or state of the dead.
3. (often lowercase) hell.
4. Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
5. Mining. the inclination of a vein or seam from the vertical.

verb (used without object)

1. (of a fault, vein, or seam) to incline from a vertical position.

Origin of Hades

First recorded in 1590-1600

Examples for Hades

And Hades, who is wise, consorts with her, because she is wise.

Persephone snacked on pomegranate seeds in Hades and now our gas bills rocket in January.

Bury me, that I may as soon as possible pass the gates of Hades.

Bodies of men, and men singly or in twos and threes, wandered like ghosts in Hades.

On one level “The Zone of Interest” is a love story set in the heart of Hades.

He was buried in the very centre of the earth—or the centre of Hades.

It tasted like Hades boiled down, and made me gasp for breath.

But the name Hades was really given him from his knowing (eidenai) all good things.

Yet when Demeter had braved all the shadows of Hades, only in part was her end accomplished.

Now, who in the name of all the demons out of Hades may that ugly abortion be?