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Definition of Netherworld
1. Noun. (religion) the world of the dead. "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"
Generic synonyms: Fictitious Place, Imaginary Place, Mythical Place
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Terms within: Acheron, River Acheron, Cocytus, River Cocytus, Lethe, River Lethe, River Styx, Styx
Definition of Netherworld
1. Noun. The place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth. ¹
2. Noun. The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not. ¹
3. Noun. Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell. ¹
4. Noun. (by extension) A hidden, shadowy, or sinister subculture, such as that of organized crime. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Netherworld
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Netherworld
Literary usage of Netherworld
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Translation and Commentary by Peter Le Page Renouf, Edouard Naville (1904)
"Should I ho called and appointed to do any of the labours that are done in the
netherworld by a person according to his abilities, lo! all obstacles have ..."
2. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"this Chapter be known, he taketh the form of a fully equipped Chu in the netherworld,
and does not suffer imprisonment at any door in the Amenta, ..."
3. The Christian Doctrine of Immortality by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond (1903)
""N. in the netherworld, make him to he in the Amenti, and subdue evil; place
thyself as a protector hehind him against his sins; place him among the ..."
4. Proceedings by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England), Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England). (1897)
"place upon earth and in the netherworld. His coming forth is like Ra daily. ...
He is seen in the netherworld as the image of Ra. (8) NOTES. ..."
5. Proceedings by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England), Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England). (1902)
"Ye fathers and mothers, gods of the sky, and of the netherworld, deliver N. from
... (The book called) giving sustenance to a deceased in the netherworld, ..."
6. Proceedings by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England), Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England). (1904)
"It is also to be recited in the netherworld. CHAPTER CLXXVI. Chapter of not dying
a second time in the netherworld. I execrate the land of the East. ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Plate b represents the weighing of the heart in the tribunal of the netherworld,
Amenti; presided over by the supreme deity Osiris (Ausar). ..."
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