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Noun the pit has 1 sense
- Hell, perdition, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, the pit - (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"
--1 is a kind of region, part; imaginary place, mythical place; region, part; imaginary place, mythical place
--1 has particulars: Gehenna, Tartarus; hellfire, red region
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