Hades

  1. Proper noun.  (Greek god) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother to Zeus, Poseidon.
  2. Proper noun.  (Greek mythology) the underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.
  3. Proper noun.  In the Septuagint Bible, the Greek translation of Sheol.
  4. Proper noun.  Hell.
  5. Noun.  (plural of, hade) .
  6. Verb.  (third-person singular of, hade) .

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