netherworld

Meaning of netherworld

pronoun
  1. The place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth.
    In some religions, one's soul departs to a netherworld, hell, instead of the heavens.
  2. The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not.
    While I was astrally projecting, I felt my soul pass through many insubstantial netherworlds.
  3. Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell.
    The missionary was motivated by a sincere desire to rescue souls from eternal torment in the netherworld.
  4. (by extension) A hidden, shadowy, or sinister subculture, such as that of organized crime.
    Richard had been initiated into the netherworld of dog racing by his father, and knew all the popular greyhound performance-enhancing drugs.

Information about netherworld

  • The plural form of netherworld is: netherworlds.
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Hyphenation of netherworld

nether-world

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 11 chars.
  • netherworld is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

netherworld synonyms

Meaning Hel:

Hel, Hell, Hades, underworld

Meaning :

heaven, damnation, hell

Words that rhyme with netherworld

OpenWorld, World, afterworld, antiworld, counterworld, cumberworld, demiworld, dreamworld, foreworld, infoworld, interworld, microworld, otherworld, outworld, overworld, subworld, supraworld, underworld, unworld, world

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