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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Underworld  \Un"der*world`\,  n. 
  1.  The  lower  of  inferior  world;  the  world  which  is  under  the 
  heavens;  the  earth. 
 
  That  overspreads  (with  such  a  reverence)  This 
  underworld.  --Daniel. 
 
  2.  The  mythological  place  of  departed  souls;  Hades. 
 
  3.  The  portion  of  the  world  which  is  below  the  horizon;  the 
  opposite  side  of  the  world;  the  antipodes.  [R.] 
 
  Fresh  as  the  first  beam  glittering  on  a  sail,  That 
  brings  our  friends  up  from  the  underworld. 
  --Tennyson. 
 
  4.  The  inferior  part  of  mankind.  [R.]  --Atterbury. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  underworld 
  n  1:  (in  various  religions)  the  world  of  the  dead;  "he  didn't 
  want  to  go  to  hell  when  he  died"  [syn:  {Hel},  {Hell},  {Hades}, 
  {infernal  region},  {netherworld},  {Scheol}] 
  2:  the  criminal  class 




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