Hades noun

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/ˈheɪ.diːz/ n

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(in stories about Ancient Greece) a place under the Earth where the spirits (= forms of dead people that cannot be seen) of the dead go; the underworld

(Definition of Hades noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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