nether
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- noun
- /ˈnɛðər/
- Jargon
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nether
- The architect civilization discovered "The Nether" and used its unique properties to go forth and conquer, but some missing element afflicted their people.
- nether regions
- reached the nether
- Nether Realm
Examples
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If there's an epidemic in the Nether, it's best we know about it.
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The demons of The Nether Regions had long fought for control of this world.
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You must have many stories to tell of the Nether Regions
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She rules over them in a dark hellscape called the Nether.
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There exists a very rare "glitch" in the game that a nether monster can appear by a portal in the overworld.
Blog text (27) -
I'd be happy to banish it to some unspoken nether-region of the internet, never to be heard from again.
Blog text (29) -
The left column of the table shows political, economic, and media conditions that emerge at the liberal-democratic top of the model, the totalitarian nether regions, and the gray areas in between where democratic erosion occurs.
Academic text (2005) -
Beds in the nether (while on cobblestone) curved stairs at four corners and a way to put slabs on the wall.
Blog text (16) -
So high was the ceiling that the nether corners were lost to sight and the tops of the great arches were draped in night even in the broadest daylight.
Fiction book (1992) -
In Minecraft, players brave the dangerous terrain and monsters of the nether to gather rare resources.
Synonyms
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A dark world below the earth where the dead live
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A place beyond the living world where spirits live
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A world you do not know, seen in fantasy or science fiction
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nether used for a game world comes from the same root meaning 'lower' or 'under', and you can remember it like netherworld or Netherlands where 'nether' means 'low'. So the game's nether is a lower, often dangerous realm below the normal world.