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As proper nouns the difference between hell and wat

is that hell is in various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death while Wat is a medieval English given name, short for Walter.

As nouns the difference between hell and wat

is that hell is a place or situation of great suffering in life while wat is a Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia.

As an interjection hell

is Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.

As a pronoun wat is

an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As an adverb wat is

an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As a determiner wat is

an alternative spelling of lang=en.

hell

English

(wikipedia hell)

Alternative forms

* (Christianity) Hell * *

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death
  • Do Muslims believe that all non-Muslims go to hell ?
  • (Abrahamic religions, uncountable) The place where devils live and where sinners are tortured after death
  • May you rot in hell !
  • * 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost
  • Better to reign in Hell' than serve in ' Heaven .
  • * 1916 , James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.

    Synonyms

    * (euphemisms for Christian place for damned souls after death) Hades, heck, infernal region, inferno, netherworld, underworld * (Mormonism) Spirit]] [[prison, Prison

    Antonyms

    * (sense) heaven

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable, hyperbole) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
  • My new boss is making my job a hell .
    I went through hell to get home today.
  • * 1879 , General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy
  • There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell .
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  • (countable) A place for gambling.
  • * W. Black
  • a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless
  • * 1907 , (Joseph Conrad), The Secret Agent
  • An extremely hot place.
  • You don't have a snowball's chance in hell .
  • (Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun)
  • I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.
    What the hell is wrong with you?
    He says he's going home early? Like hell he is.
  • (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
  • (Hudibras)
  • In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
  • Derived terms

    * as hell * forty minutes of hell * hell and half of Georgia * hella * hellagood * hell-fire * hell for leather * hell hath no fury like a woman scorned * hellish * hell on earth * hell on wheels * hell's delight * hellspawn * hell to pay * hell week * like hell * living hell * no screaming hell * the hell * the hell out of * the hell with it * to hell with * what the hell

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Oh, hell ! I got another parking ticket.
  • Hell , yeah!

    See also

    * damn * heck English intensifiers English swear words ----

    wat

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia.
  • There are two wats near this village.
    Angkor Wat
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  • * 1996 , James Bissett Pratt, The Pilgrimage of Buddhism and a Buddhist Pilgrimage , page 194:
  • It would be a mistake, however, to emphasize the Hindu element in Cambodian Buddhism and Cambodian temples. At its greatest it is always a subordinate element and in most of the wats or temples it hardly appears at all,
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  • See also

    * chedi * pagoda * stupa *

    Etymology 2

    From Amharic.

    Noun

  • A kind of stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
  • Etymology 3

    Variation of what.

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (informal, Internet, text messaging)
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • (informal, Internet, text messaging)
  • Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • (informal, Internet, text messaging)
  • Anagrams

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