netherworld

Meanings

Plural: netherworlds

Noun

• (religion) the world of the dead; -Theognis
• The place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth.
• The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not.
• Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell.
• A hidden, shadowy, or sinister subculture, such as that of organized crime.

Synonyms

astral plane, damnation, Hades, heaven, hell, Hell, infernal region, nether region, Scheol, underworld