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Definition: Hellfire |
HellfireNoun1. A place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hellfire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Synonym: HellfireSynonym: red region (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, maybe you'll have night after night of eternal hellfire all to yourself (The Good Girl; writing credit: Mike White) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Hellfire Club (1960) Hellfire (1949) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
High Tech |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | For how miserable will all those pleasures seem to the soul condemned to suffer in hellfire for ages and ages |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Hellfire" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 61.29% of the time. "Hellfire" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 61.29% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 38.71% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hellfire": hellfire-spiced. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "hellfire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | جهنم (abyss, gehenna, hell, inferno, limbo, perdition). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ヘブライ語 (health, health center, health check, health club, health food, health meter, healthy, heart, heaven, Hebrew, helicopter, Helios, helioscope, heliotrope, heliport, helium, helix, hell, Hellenism, helm, helmet, Helmholtz, help, helper, Helsinki, hem, hemline, hemoglobin, hemstitch, hen party, Henckels, henna, Hepburn, Herakles, herald, Hercules, Hermes, hernia, heroin, herpangina, herringbone, Herzogovina, Hz, Mr, Switzerland, type of massage parlor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ヘルファイア . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ellfirehay.(various references) | |
Thai | ไฟนรก. (various references) | |
Turkish | cehennem azabı (perdition, the tortures of hell), cehennem ateşi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hellfire": hellfires. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hellfire": shellfire. (additional references) | |
Words containing "hellfire": shellfires. (additional references) | |
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"Hellfire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cellifier, Halfie, Halifirien, hellfired, hollofibre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hellfire" (pronounced he"lfī'r) |
| 3 | -f ī' r | backfire, brushfire, foxfire, gunfire. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-h-i-l-l-r" | |
-1 letter: helleri. | |
-2 letters: feller, ferlie, filler, heifer, heller, hiller, liefer, refell, refile, refill, relief. | |
-3 letters: filer, fille, fleer, flier, frill, iller, lifer, refel, rifle, rille. | |
-4 letters: elhi, feel, fell, fere, file, fill, fire, flee, free, heel, heil, heir, hell, here, herl, hill, hire, leer, lehr, lief, lier, life, lire, reef, reel, reif, riel, rife, rile. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-h-i-l-l-r" | |
+1 letter: fleshlier, hellfires, shellfire. | |
+2 letters: shellfires. | |
+4 letters: shellfishery. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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