otherworld
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈʌðərˌwɜrld/
- Literature
- In ancient myths, the otherworld is often depicted as a paradise where souls go after death.
- otherworld men
Examples
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The first was to honor the dead who were allowed to rise from the Otherworld.
Blog text (18) -
His dreamy eyes gleamed in the fractured light of the otherworld.
Fiction book (1991) -
Come from the great otherworld to join us.
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Experience for yourself its otherworld luxury...
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It's the most powerful book of the Otherworld.
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There was no trace of the Otherworld there.
Fiction book (1990) -
Now, you can beg her forgiveness in the Otherworld.
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Simultaneously, it constructs for the family and community a portrait of the quality of the deceased's existence in the otherworld.
Academic text (1990) -
In secret, because she was ashamed, she had schooled herself in all the old lore of mortals released from the Otherworld.
Fiction book (1993) -
In the Elder Age, when this world and the Otherworld were one, Chameol was a cloister, a walled city within the royal seat of Iule.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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4.4
An imagined place in your mind with magic and strange creatures
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7.9
A place where spirits like ghosts, angels, or ancestors live
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7.4
A world of beings and events believed to be beyond nature
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8.8
A dark world below the earth where the dead live
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9.9
A non-physical world people believe you can visit in dreams, meditation, or after death
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6.9
A place beyond the life we can see and touch where gods and unseen beings live
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6.3
A place in your mind where you imagine things
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6.6
An imagined perfect place that exists only in dreams
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8.4
A place or life people believe exists after death
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5.8
A made-up world with magic and creatures like dragons and wizards
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9.9
A world you do not know, seen in fantasy or science fiction
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9.1
An imagined place someone believes is real
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9.9
A power beyond the natural world often seen in miracles
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9.9
A place beyond the physical world like heaven
A magical Welsh land where fairies live and people never grow old
How Transcendent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Otherworld is made of the simple parts other ('different') and world ('the place we live'). So it means a 'different world' beyond our own, often the hidden or spiritual place in stories and beliefs.