Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The part of society that is engaged in and organized for the purpose of crime and vice.
- n. A region, realm, or dwelling place conceived to be below the surface of the earth.
- n. The opposite side of the earth; the antipodes.
- n. Greek & Roman Mythology The world of the dead, located below the world of the living; Hades.
- n. Archaic The world beneath the heavens; the earth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The world below the skies; this lower world; the sublunary world.
- n. The opposite side of the globe; the antipodes.
- n. The world below this world; the infernal world; the place or state of departed souls; Hades.
- n. The lower, inferior, degraded part of mankind.
Wiktionary
- n. That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice.
- n. mythology The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.
- n. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.
- n. rare The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes.
- n. rare The inferior part of mankind.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (religion) the world of the dead
- n. the criminal class
Examples
“Daniel's fall into this underworld is also a flight, for as he falls in love with the mysterious coral thief and she draws him into an audacious plot that will leave him with a future very different from the one he has envisioned for himself, Daniel discovers a radical theory of evolution and mutability that irrevocably changes his conception of the world in which he lives.”
The Coral Thief: Summary and book reviews of The Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott.
“We have not sufficiently understood, however, that the underworld is at once a lyrical or metaphysical site and a historical place, even if the ambiguity of its material conditions cannot be isolated from the substance of poetry.”
“The Egyptian mythology of judgement in the underworld is all geared around this "weighing" metaphor, though there it's more literal with the soul actually put in the scales.”
“No one even at the highest level of either the government or the criminal underworld is immune to this fact.”
"All the federales say they could have had him anyday...they only let him slip away"
“The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine.”
“Some people will look at it as more realistic than Violets are Blue, but only because they won't be able to believe that the vampire underworld is as large and real as it is.”
“The only reason folks would never mistake him for an agent of the underworld is that striking blue pigmentation.”
“Law enforcement and animal-protection advocates who have participated in raids on the type of enterprises that the Atlanta Falcons quarterback and three other men are accused of running say the reality of the dogfighting underworld is even worse than most people can imagine.”
“The underworld is quite a big thing in Roman times, maybe they could borrow from some of those myths to talk about a battle in the Euclidean Fields?”
“When he entered the underworld midway through life, he called the underworld Dis, D-I-S.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘underworld’.
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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Mother-of-All-Saints
Some alternatives to calling it your 'stuff'.
Mount of Venus, nameless, name-it-not, omnibus, the novelty, niche, nest, moss-rose, peach, old-ding, old woman, the nonsuch and 115 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Hells
Tartarus, Hel, avichi, barathrum, Malebolge, Hades, abyss, Abaddon, Gehenna, pandemonium, Tophet, hellhole and 10 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (U,V)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
virgin's bower, umiak, underworld, undine, unearthly, unfurl, unicorn, universe, unquiet, undead, uraeus, urn and 58 more...
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Cool Words
Words that are awesome to use, if you can find a good place in a sentence to use them!
asunder, zero, scarecrow, chronic, crooked, aftermath, aquatic, karma, deadpan, devil, berserker, bibliotaph and 32 more...
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Thine is the Kingdom
Names for the afterlife, in many religions and cultures. Including the "good place" and the "bad place," as well as more "neutral" places. :-)
heaven, hell, purgatory, valhalla, paradise, hades, gehenna, summerland, abraham's bosom, olam haba, hereafter, fields of yalu and 25 more...
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