Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, excessive, figuratively)A place or situation of great suffering in life.

    My new boss is making my job a hell.

    I went through hell to get home today.

    Hölle

    адad

    пе́клоpéklo, адad

  2. (countable)A place for gambling.

    any place of pain and turmoil

  3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)An extremely hot place.

    You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell.

    when hell freezes over

    пе́клоpéklo

  4. (countable, mildly, uncountable, vulgar)Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.

    I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.

    What the hell is wrong with you?!

  5. (countable, uncountable)In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

  6. (colloquial, countable, uncountable, usually, with on)Something extremely painful or harmful (to)

    That steep staircase is hell on my knees.

  7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.

Examples

835 sentences
  1. Tom took off like a bat out of hell.

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  2. What the hell kind of movie is this?

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  3. What the hell are you doing?

    Що ти, в біса, робиш?

    ruКакого черта ты делаешь?

    deWas zum Teufel machst du?

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  4. There's no more room in hell.

    У пеклі вже немає місця.

    ruВ аду больше нет места.

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  5. They know how hell looks like.

    Вони знають, як виглядає пекло.

    ruОни знают, как выглядит ад.

    deSie wissen, wie die Hölle aussieht.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
place of suffering in life:
Русский
By meaning 2
place of suffering in life:
extremely hot place:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
place of suffering in life:

Origin

From Middle English hel, hell, helle, hælle, from Old English hel, hell, from Proto-West G

From Middle English hel, hell, helle, hælle, from Old English hel, hell, from Proto-West Germanic *hallju, from Proto-Germanic *haljō (“hell, netherworld”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). First attested in c. 725.

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Forms

plural: hells

Synonyms

14 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

91 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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