Usually means: Gateway to the underworld; ominous.
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  1. Avernus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Avernus: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Avernus: Wordnik
  4. Avernus: Wiktionary
  5. Avernus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. Avernus: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. avernus: Dictionary.com
  8. Avernus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Avernus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Avernus)

▸ noun:  The entrance to Hell or the underworld, or the underworld itself.
▸ noun:  A lake in Southern Italy.

Similar:
Acheron, abyss, Abaddon, Erebus, Hades, Tartarus, barathrum, Hell-Realm, hell, afterworld, more...

Opposite:
heaven, paradise, utopia, bliss

Phrases:
lake avernus, more...

Adjectives:
black, dark, deep, celebrated, volcanic, old, famous, dire, inauspicious, ancient, near

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Similar:
Acheron, abyss, Abaddon, Erebus, Hades, Tartarus, barathrum, Hell-Realm, hell, afterworld, more...

Opposite:
heaven, paradise, utopia, bliss

Phrases:
lake avernus, more...

Adjectives:
black, dark, deep, celebrated, volcanic, old, famous, dire, inauspicious, ancient, near



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