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hades
Part of speech: NounThe abode and state of the dead; the invisible world.
Usage examples "hades":- Then he replied that he had no malicious intentions; that his august father had expelled him with a divine expulsion, and that he had come to take leave of her before departing to the land of hades. - "Japan", David Murray.
- And there was nothing in his mind which approached these sentiments near enough to tell them to go to Hades. - "Last Words", Stephen Crane.
- It expresses Browning's highest conception of the union of soul with soul: Therewith her whole soul entered into his, He looked the look back, and Alkestis died- died only to be rejected by Hades, as still living, and with a more potent life, in her husband's heart and will. - "Robert Browning", Edward Dowden.