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nether·world (-wʉrld′)

noun

  1. Theol., Myth. the world of the dead or of punishment after death; hell
  2. a sphere of human activity or state of existence regarded as corrupt, unwholesome, undesirable, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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