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Meaning of INFERNAL REGION

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  (in various religions) the world of the dead; "he didn't want to go to hell when he died"
  2. [n]  (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"
 
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 Synonyms: Hades, Hel, Hell, Inferno, nether region, netherworld, perdition, Scheol, the pit, underworld
 
 Antonyms: Heaven
 
 See Also: Acheron, Cocytus, Gehenna, hellfire, imaginary place, Lethe, red region, River Acheron, River Cocytus, River Lethe, River Styx, Styx, Tartarus

 

 

 

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