Category: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.