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noun a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned
originFrom Middle English helle fire, helever, from Old English hellefȳr, equivalent to hell + fire. Cognate with West Frisian helfjoer (“hellfire”), Dutch hellevuur (“hellfire”), German Höllenfeuer (“hellfire”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0