"gate of hell" meaning in English

See gate of hell in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: gates of hell [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|gates of hell}} gate of hell (plural gates of hell)
  1. Any of various places on the surface of the world, often in regions of unusual geological activity, that have acquired a legendary reputation as entrances to the underworld. Wikipedia link: gates of hell Categories (topical): Geology Categories (place): Places
    Sense id: en-gate_of_hell-en-noun-9V908lZE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for gate of hell meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gates of hell",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gates of hell"
      },
      "expansion": "gate of hell (plural gates of hell)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Geology",
          "orig": "en:Geology",
          "parents": [
            "Earth sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places",
          "orig": "en:Places",
          "parents": [
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 20, Léonie Chao-Fong, quoting António Guterres, “UN chief says ‘humanity has opened gates of hell’ on climate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "The UN’s secretary general, António Guterres, said that “humanity has opened the gates of hell” by unleashing worsening heatwaves, floods and wildfires seen around the world but that action to prevent the worst was still possible.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various places on the surface of the world, often in regions of unusual geological activity, that have acquired a legendary reputation as entrances to the underworld."
      ],
      "id": "en-gate_of_hell-en-noun-9V908lZE",
      "links": [
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ],
        [
          "world",
          "world"
        ],
        [
          "geological",
          "geological"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "legendary",
          "legendary"
        ],
        [
          "reputation",
          "reputation"
        ],
        [
          "entrance",
          "entrance"
        ],
        [
          "underworld",
          "underworld"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "gates of hell"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gate of hell"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gates of hell",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gates of hell"
      },
      "expansion": "gate of hell (plural gates of hell)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Geology",
        "en:Places"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 20, Léonie Chao-Fong, quoting António Guterres, “UN chief says ‘humanity has opened gates of hell’ on climate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "The UN’s secretary general, António Guterres, said that “humanity has opened the gates of hell” by unleashing worsening heatwaves, floods and wildfires seen around the world but that action to prevent the worst was still possible.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various places on the surface of the world, often in regions of unusual geological activity, that have acquired a legendary reputation as entrances to the underworld."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ],
        [
          "world",
          "world"
        ],
        [
          "geological",
          "geological"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "legendary",
          "legendary"
        ],
        [
          "reputation",
          "reputation"
        ],
        [
          "entrance",
          "entrance"
        ],
        [
          "underworld",
          "underworld"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "gates of hell"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gate of hell"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.