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View synonyms for hellhound

hellhound

[ hel-hound ]

noun

  1. a mythical watchdog of hell.
  2. a fiendish person.


hellhound

/ ˈhɛlˌhaʊnd /

noun

  1. a hound of hell
  2. a fiend
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hellhound1

before 900; Middle English, Old English helle hund; hell, hound 1
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Example Sentences

A teenage boy who resembles Ralphie comes out of a cabin, holding a wand and the chain of a gigantic hellhound.

Cerberus, the guard of the underworld, is featured with Hercules, a reference to the heroic demigod’s 12th and final labor which involved capturing the hellhound.

For the Greeks, the Black Sea was the edge of the known world, inhabited by, as he writes in the book, “cannibals, hellhounds, man-slaughtering Amazons, dwarves mounted on flying cranes, Cyclopes, lice-eaters, and werewolves.”

Packs of hellhounds prowled the plains, baying and snarling and attacking any monster that dropped its guard.

King James Rempe, the hellhound of pool, stalked the table with a werewolf’s hypnotic stare, his eyes at last alive, his mane bristling as though a full moon had finally broken through the midnight clouds.

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