underworld
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈʌndərˌwɜrld/
- Literature
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inframundo
- Deep below, across the frigid River Styx and through the halls of the underworld, Persephone was waging her own protest.
- descent into the underworld
- descend into the underworld
- return from the underworld
Isn't that a brilliant way of talking about the Greek underworld?
- Isn't that a brilliant way of talking about the Greek underworld?
- When Alice goes down the rabbit hole, that's the underworld, right?
- And here appears appears Persephone, the goddess of the underworld.
- So in order to rescue his love, he has to go through all these trials to get down into the underworld.
- And so he's described as going to rule in the underworld alongside Nergal, a very evil, wicked war God to be a positive counterpart.
- He tells us that in the ethical world we did see a religion, the religion of the underworld.
Examples
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There's no sun in the underworld.
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In ancient times, heroes traveled to the underworld before they dreamt of seeing heaven.
Academic text (2003) -
And in the underworld, what, what sort of existence do they have now?
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Your queen rules from the underworld.
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What you doing in the underworld, Taylor?
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She knows the laws of the underworld.
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We read that they were a constant threat to Ra in the underworld and represented total chaos.
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The ancient Maya believed that their lands emerged from the sea and associated the underworld with water.
Academic text (2010) -
To the Maya, the underworld was Xibalba, a dark and dangerous realm of death and decay.
Academic text (1991) -
Orpheus traveled to the underworld to find his loved one and bring them back to Earth.
Synonyms
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A place after death where the dead are punished in some religions
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A dark world below the earth where the dead live
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A place where the dead live in ancient Hebrew belief
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A place of suffering for the dead in religious stories
The place of the dead in Greek myths where souls go after death
Antonyms
How Pleasant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Underworld comes from under 'below' and world 'place or the world'. It literally means the 'world below', so in myths it names the place under the earth where the dead live, like the Greek Hades.