netherworld
noun
- Theol., Myth. the world of the dead or of punishment after death; hell
- a sphere of human activity or state of existence regarded as corrupt, unwholesome, undesirable, etc.
See netherworld in American Heritage Dictionary 4
also nether world (nĕÞˈər-wûrldˌ)
noun- The world of the dead.
- The part of society engaged in crime and vice: “In this black-white nether world, nobody judged the customers” (Malcolm X).
Related Forms:
- nethˌer·worldˈly adjective
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