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underworld |
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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