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noun

Underworld n.

The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. "That overspreads (with such a reverence) This underworld."

The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.

The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes. (R.) "Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld."

The inferior part of mankind. (R.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Underworld" Quotes from Famous Books

... of this land into the black realm of the dead did Izanagi follow after her, and seek in vain to bring her back again. And the tale of his descent into that strange nether world, and of what there befell him, is it not written in the Kojiki? [1] And of all legends primeval concerning the Underworld this story is one of the weirdest—more weird than even the Assyrian legend ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn

... huge cliff against a background of dark moss, which has earned for the brook the name of 'Black Water.' At the bottom of the cliff the water loses itself in a chaos of rocks. The ancients saw in the icy coldness of the water and in the barren tract around an image of the underworld." (See Baedeker's Greece.) To swear by the Styx was to take "the ...

— Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca - Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece • Homer

... hands grasped the arms of her chair; her eyes stared straight before her. There arose to her quick fancy the recollection of certain confidences of Miss Allen, which had hinted at hideous malpractices of the underworld of vice, affecting women in a similar condition ...

— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte

... grey breeches with a black leather seat. He was driving a tiny little haycart with a tiny little horse, and up in the cart was a little red-flanked cow—on its way to the butcher's, I suppose. All three—man, horse, and cow—were undersized; palaeolithic figures; dwarf creatures from the underworld on a visit to the haunts of men. I almost looked to see them vanish before my eyes. All of a sudden the cow in its Lilliputian cart utters a throaty roar—and even that unromantic sound was like ...

— Wanderers • Knut Hamsun

... wife to Pluto (l. 86) and queen of the underworld, was anciently honored, with flower festivals in Sicily, as the goddess of ...

— Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems • Matthew Arnold

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