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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a place where the wicked are punished after death [syn: Gehenna, Tartarus]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin, from Greek Tartaros Date: 1513 a section of Hades reserved for punishment of the wicked

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (in Greek mythology): 1 an abyss below Hades where the Titans were confined. 2 a place of punishment in Hades. Derivatives: Tartarean adj. Etymology: L f. Gk Tartaros

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tartarus Tar"ta*rus, n. [L., from Gr. ?.] (Class. Myth.) The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Hades, Erebus, hell, the lower world, the infernal regions, shades below, purgatory, pandemonium, realms of Pluto.