What is another word for the underworld?

Pronunciation: [ðɪ ˈʌndəwˌɜːld] (IPA)

The underworld, also known as the netherworld, is a term used to describe the realm of the dead in various mythological traditions. Other synonyms for the underworld include Hades, the realm of shadows, the land of the dead, and the abyss. In some cultures, the underworld is also referred to as the afterlife, the otherworld, or the spirit world. The concept of the underworld has been present in many civilizations throughout history, and its meaning and representation vary across cultures. However, the common thread that connects all of these synonyms is the notion of a mysterious and unknown realm that exists beyond the world of the living.

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What are the hypernyms for The underworld?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with The underworld

  • I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.
    James Ellroy
  • It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
    Don Marquis
  • He began to think about semblance, as Ansky had discussed it in his notebook, and he began to think about himself. He felt free, as he never had in his life, and although malnourished and weak, he also felt the strength to prolong as far as possible this impulse toward freedom, toward sovereignty. And yet the possibility that it was all nothing but semblance troubled him. Semblance was an occupying force of reality, he said to himself, even the most extreme, borderline reality. It lived in people's souls and their actions, in willpower and in pain, in the way memories and priorities were ordered. Semblance proliferated in the salons of the industrialists and in the underworld. It set the rules, it rebelled against its own rules...it set new rules.
    Roberto Bolaño
  • …the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race. Most, if not all of them, have forsaken the faith of their forefathers, and divorced from their minds all spiritual hopes of the next world. This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxemburg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognisable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.
    Winston Churchill
  • The chief rabbi of the underworld, that's me.
    Mordecai Richler

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