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The word 'hell' as a noun is used in religious contexts to mean 'a place of eternal punishment for the wicked after death'. However, the word is often used in casual conversations as a swearword.

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How do you define the word 'hell'?

Here is how the word 'hell' is defined: NOUN 1) (a) a spiritual plane of existence beyond space and time where bad people go after they die to suffer eternal punishment and where Satan and his demonic forces live and rule; Gehenna; the Lake Of Fire; the Second Death; the netherworld (b) an old-fashioned term for a spiritual plane of existence where people go after they die regardless of their moral states; Hades; Sheol (c) an old-fashioned term for the grave (d) Satan and his demonic forces who live and rule in hell 2) any place or state of agony or torture 3) used as a curse or a term of abuse


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