Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hades
IPA transcription: [h'eɪdiz]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Hell, Hades, infernal_region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld
    Meaning: (religion) the world of the dead; "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"-Theognis
  • Synonyms: Pluto, Hades, Aides, Aidoneus
    Meaning: (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone
Usage examples
  • This river had not always run under the vaults of Hades.
  • He was the king of death, husband of Eresh-ki-gal, queen of Hades.
  • The two left Hades by an ivory door, the key of which Pluto had confided to their care.
  • For they deemed that they were saved from Hades; and Tiphys first of all began to speak:
  • 'O heavens! verily in the house of Hades there is soul and ghostly form but no mind at all!'
  • 'The soul flying from the limbs had gone to Hades, lamenting her fate, leaving manhood and youth.'
  • And from it towards the land a hollow glen slopes gradually away, where there is a cave of Hades overarched by wood and rocks.
  • They were Minos, AEacus and Rhadamanthus, the three judges of Hades, whose duty it was to punish the guilty by casting them into a dismal gulf, Tartarus, whence none might ever emerge, and to reward the innocent by transporting them to the Elysian Fields where delight followed delight in endless pleasure.
  • But when the Titans attempted to scale the heaven, this river had the ill luck to quench their thirst, and Jupiter to punish even the waters of the river for abetting his enemies, turned its course aside into the under world where its waves, slow-moving and filthy, lost themselves in Styx, the largest of all the rivers of Hades, which ran round Pluto's gloomy kingdom no less than nine times.