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ˈtɑr tər əstar·tarus

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Gehenna, Tartarusnoun

    a place where the wicked are punished after death

Wiktionary

  1. Tartarusnoun

    In Greek paganism, a dark and gloomy part of the realm of Hades, reserved for the damned, the wicked, such as the Titans, etc.

Wikipedia

  1. Tartarus

    In Greek mythology, Tartarus (; Ancient Greek: Τάρταρος, romanized: Tártaros) is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans. Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato's Gorgias (c. 400 BC), souls are judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. Tartarus is also considered to be a primordial force or deity alongside entities such as the Earth, Night, and Time.

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  1. tartarus

    Tartarus, in ancient Greek mythology, is a deep, gloomy part of the underworld where the wicked are punished after death. It is also often personified as a primordial god or deity of the same name, representing the embodiment of the abyss used as a torturous afterlife. Tartarus is depicted as being far below Hades, the realm of the dead, and is considered a place of punishment, rather than a place where souls are sent.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tartarusnoun

    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

Wikidata

  1. Tartarus

    Tartarus, or Tartaros, is the deep abyss in ancient Greek mythology that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked. A part of the underworld and, in turn, below Uranus, Gaia, and Pontus, Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato in Gorgias, souls were judged after death and where the wicked received punishment. Like other primal entities, Tartarus is also a primordial force or deity. Tartarus was used as a prison for the worst of villains, including Cronus and the other Titans who were thrown in by Zeus. Uranus also threw his own children into Tartarus because he feared they might overthrow him. These mishaps included the "hundred-handed-ones", the "cyclopes" and the "giants".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tartarus

    tär′ta-rus, n. the lower world generally, but esp. the place of punishment for the wicked, according to Homer, a deep and sunless abyss, as far below Hades as earth is below heaven, and closed in by iron gates—(Shak.) Tar′tar: (Spens.) Tar′tary.—adj. Tartā′rean. [L.,—Gr. tartaros.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Tartarus

    a dark sunless waste in the nether deeps, as far below earth as heaven is above it, into which Zeus hurled the Titans that rebelled against him; the term was subsequently sometimes used to denote the whole nether world and sometimes the place of punishment.

Mythology

  1. Tartarus

    (Tar′tarus). An inner region of hell, to which the gods sent the exceptionally depraved.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tartarus in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tartarus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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