underworld : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: underworld	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for underworld
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
underworld n the criminal class (religion) the world of the dead; "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"-Theognis Synonym(s): Hell, Hades, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Underworld \Un"der*world`\, n. 1. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. That overspreads (with such a reverence) This underworld. --Daniel. 2. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades. 3. 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. --Tennyson. 4. The inferior part of mankind. [R.] --Atterbury.