ALL meanings of avernus
A·ver·nus
A a - noun avernus a crater lake in Italy, near Naples: in ancient times regarded as an entrance to hell 3
- noun avernus Hades; hell 3
- noun avernus small lake in an extinct volcano near Naples, Italy, at the edge of which the entrance to Hades was anciently said to be 3
- noun avernus a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld. 1