Definition of "hell" in Anglais

name

1. (in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.

   • May you rot in hell!

noun

1. (countable, hyperbolic, 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.
   • callback hell; <table> hell; <div> hell

2. (countable) A place for gambling.

3. (figuratively) An extremely hot place.

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

4. (sometimes 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?!
   • He says he’s going home early? Like hell he is.

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

6. In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

7. (colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)

   • That steep staircase is hell on my knees.

interjection

1. Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.

   • Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.

2. (no longer productive) Used to emphasize.

   • Hell yeah!

3. Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.

   • Do it, or, rest assured, there will be no more Middle Eastern crisis – hell, there will be no more Middle East!

adverb

1. (postpositional) Alternative form of the hell or like hell.

   • - Oh, aren't they sweet?

2. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly.

   • That was hell good!
   • They're hell sexy.

verb

1. To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.

2. To hurry, rush.

3. (intransitive) To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.

   • He was helling down the road with his radio blaring.