hades

noun

Definition of hadesnext
as in underworld

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Recent Examples of hades In the 1997 film, it's revealed that Meg sold her soul to Hades to save her boyfriend, who eventually left her for another woman. — Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025 The seeds seal Persephone’s fate as one who must spend part of every year with Hades among the dead. — Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025 Using gifts from the gods—Athena's polished shield, Hermes' winged sandals, Hades' helm of invisibility, and a sword—Perseus beheaded Medusa and later used her head as a weapon. — Amanda Castro hannah Parry anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025 Epstein himself, competing from Hades, placed third (9.5 percent). — George Kalogerakis, Air Mail, 9 Aug. 2025 In the Greek myth, musician Orpheus loses wife Eurydice to a snake bite and travels to the underworld to plead with Hades for her return. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2025 The fictional Night Raven College serves as a training ground for aspiring sorcerers, with dormitories themed around villainous icons like the Queen of Hearts, Scar, Ursula, Jafar, the Evil Queen, Hades and Maleficent. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025 Riordan also announced, via a pre-taped video, that demigods Nico di Angelo and his sister Bianca, children of Hades, will be played in Season 3 by child actor Levi Chrisopulos and Olive Abercrombie (Mayfair Witches, Outer Range). — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 24 July 2025 Percy immediately returns the Helm to Hades, and decides to take the Bolt straight to Olympus himself — which is on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building. — EW.com, 22 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hades
  1. underworld
  2. netherworld
  3. inferno
  4. purgatory
  5. Sheol
Noun
  • Moreover, a host of unsavory characters from Britain’s criminal underworld want a piece of the operation.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 9 July 2026
  • Miles eventually gets pulled into the local chapter of the Jeremiah Wylkes Society, whose mission is to investigate its 19th-century namesake’s contention that there is a hidden entrance to a spectacular underworld nearby.
    — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026
Definition of underworld
Noun
  • Alistair Taylor’s reward for accompanying him into this teenage netherworld was to be given lunch at his current favorite city-center restaurant, the Peacock.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
  • The rules of this netherworld announce themselves, early on, via a nondescript wall sign.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
Definition of netherworld
Noun
  • Sunday’s temperature for the men’s final is forecast to be around 82 degrees—hot, yes, but nothing like the inferno that was Paris—and so external factors would seem to be at a minimum.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 10 July 2026
  • At least 12 people have been killed in one of southern Spain’s worst-ever wildfires, local officials said Friday, as tragic stories emerge of victims’ attempts to flee the inferno.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
Definition of inferno
Noun
  • The Tampa Bay Lightning’s quest to escape their recent first-round playoff purgatory starts with a new 84-game regular-season slate.
    — Nicolas Villamil, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2026
  • Cthulhu, who tricks the Minions into releasing his friends from purgatory.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 June 2026
Definition of purgatory
Noun
  • The soul is the same one that ancient Egyptians called the ka, or that God promises the psalmist will be rescued from Sheol, or that lay dormant in the minds of so many contemporary American readers, waiting for the right sound to set it free.
    — Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Definition of Sheol

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“Hades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hades. Accessed 22 Jul. 2026.

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