Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Greek Mythology The abysmal regions below Hades where the Titans were confined.
- noun An infernal region; hell.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A deep and sunless abyss, according to Home and the earlier Greek mythology as far below Hades as earth is below heaven.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Greek mythology a
dark andgloomy part of the realm ofHades , reserved for the damned, the wicked, such as theTitans , etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a place where the wicked are punished after death
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Titans were then imprisoned in Tartarus, the deepest part of the underworld, with the few exceptions being those who didn't fight with Kronos.
Louis Leterrier Explains How He Took on Clash of the Titans « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The nasty one, a cursed land of screaming, flames, and punishment, was known as the Tartarus Plains.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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The nasty one, a cursed land of screaming, flames, and punishment, was known as the Tartarus Plains.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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The nasty one, a cursed land of screaming, flames, and punishment, was known as the Tartarus Plains.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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22 A detailed and most curious account of this region, which he calls Tartarus, is given by Angustine.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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When Cronus came to power he imprisoned the Cyclopes in Tartarus.
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After rescuing and raising a young girl named LILY—who along with her brother, ALEXANDER, was the latest in a long line of gifted Oracles from Siwa in Egypt—Jack managed to set the Capstone in place on the summit of the Great Pyramid before the occurrence of a rare solar event known as the Tartarus Rotation.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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The Greeks call it Tartarus, a place even worse than Hades; the Hebrews, Gehenna or Sheol; for Islam it is Jahannam; in China and Japan it is referred to as Di Yu; the Buddhists and Hindus call it Naraka.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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In the end, the only way to save humankind was for the Fates to lock their sisters into a prison land called Tartarus.
The Three Furies Kaza Kingsley 2010
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After rescuing and raising a young girl named LILY—who along with her brother, ALEXANDER, was the latest in a long line of gifted Oracles from Siwa in Egypt—Jack managed to set the Capstone in place on the summit of the Great Pyramid before the occurrence of a rare solar event known as the Tartarus Rotation.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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