Usually means: Place of punishment after death.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word hell:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hell, he'll, hell, the hell: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. he'll, hell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. he'll, hell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. he'll, hell, the hell: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hell, hell: Vocabulary.com
  6. HE'LL, He�ll, He'll, Hell, he'll, hell, hell, hell: Wordnik
  7. Hell, he'll: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hell, he'll, hell, the hell: Wiktionary
  9. he'll, hell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. he'll, hell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hell: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. he'll, hell, the hell: Dictionary.com
  13. hell: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hell: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hell (American band), Hell (Barbusse novel), Hell (Bosch), Hell (British band), Hell (DC Comics), Hell (Disturbed song), Hell (Father Ted), Hell (Hell album), Hell (James Brown album), Hell (Venom album), Hell (band), Hell (crater), Hell (disambiguation), Hell (forum), Hell, The hell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hell: Rhymezone
  19. hell, hell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hell: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hell, Hell, Hell: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hell: Free Dictionary
  23. hell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. he'll, hell: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. hell: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. hell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  27. hell: Wordnik

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. HELL: Band Terms
  2. Hell: Eastern Philosophy
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. Hell: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hell: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hell: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  3. Hell: Acronym Finder
  4. hell: Idioms
  5. Hell: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  6. Third Eye's Paranormal (No longer online)

Religion (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hell: Easton Bible
  2. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  4. Hell: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  5. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)
  6. HELL: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hell, hell, hell: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hell: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. the HELL: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See helling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Hell)

noun:  (in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death.
noun:  (countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
noun:  (countable) A place for gambling.
noun:  (figuratively) An extremely hot place.
noun:  (sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
noun:  (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.
noun:  In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
noun:  (colloquial, with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
adverb:  (Australia, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly.
verb:  To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.
verb:  To hurry, rush.
verb:  (intransitive) To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.
verb:  (rare, metal-working) To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).
verb:  (rare) To pour.
noun:  Any of various places so named.
noun:  A village in Stjørdal, Trøndelag, Norway; was the administrative center of Lånke municipality, which existed until 1962.
adverb:  (postpositional) Alternative form of the hell or like hell.
noun:  Alternative spelling of Hel. [(religion, Norse mythology) The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.]
noun:  Alternative form of Hela.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of hell. [(in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death.]

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