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Word: netherworld (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • by extension A hidden, shadowy, or sinister subculture, such as that of organized crime.
  • Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell.
  • The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not.
  • The place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth.

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