Толковый словарь английского языка - hell

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old English helan to conceal, Old High German helan, Latin celare, Greek kalyptein Date: before 12th century 1. a. a nether world in which the dead continue to exist ; Hades, the nether realm of the devil and the demons in which the damned suffer everlasting punishment, error 2b, sin, 2. a place or state of misery, torment, or wickedness , a place or state of turmoil or destruction , a severe scolding, unrestrained fun or sportiveness , an extremely unpleasant and often inescapable situation , a tailor's receptacle, 4. — used as an interjection <~, I don't know!> or as an intensive like ~> — often used in the phrase ~ of a was one ~ of a good fight> or ~ out of or with the or in way the ~ up north> wrong, now?>