tartarus
pronunciation
How to pronounce tartarus in British English:
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- Noun:
- a place where the wicked are punished after death
Word Origin
- Tartarus (n.)
- in Homer and older Greek mythology, the sunless abyss below Hades, from Greek Tartaros, of uncertain origin; "prob. a word of imitative origin, suggestive of something frightful" [Klein]. Later in Greek almost synonymous with Hades.
Example
- 1. You know how to get to tartarus ?
- 2. It is said that both day and night lived here in the same home , behind the gates of tartarus , yet they were never there at the same time .
- 3. For if god did not spare the angels who sinned but delivered them to gloomy pits , having cast them down to tartarus , they being kept for judgment .
- 4. But did you say tartarus ?
- 5. How we actually get to tartarus ?