Tartarus
Americannoun
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a sunless abyss, below Hades, in which Zeus imprisoned the Titans.
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a place in Hades for the punishment of the wicked.
noun
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an abyss under Hades where the Titans were imprisoned
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a part of Hades reserved for evildoers
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the underworld; Hades
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a primordial god who became the father of the monster Typhon
Etymology
Origin of Tartarus
C16: from Latin, from Greek Tartaros, of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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Exoplanet hunters have caught sight of a multitude of Earth- and Venus-size worlds far from our galactic backwater, each of them an Elysium or a Tartarus.
From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2021
They were defeated, captured, bound and imprisoned in Tartarus by the gods we all learned about in grade school: Zeus and his rapacious clan of divine grifters.
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2020
Both these handsome volumes — from Tartarus Press — are suffused with that air of mystery, transgression and foreboding one associates with continental literature and film during the 1920s and ’30s.
From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2019
The rounded mountains, quite different from those we know on Earth, are named Tartarus Dorsa.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
Assuming that the entire pit was the body of Tartarus, Annabeth had a nasty feeling they were marching straight down his throat.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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