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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (religion) the world of the dead; "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"-Theognis [syn: Hell, Hades, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1632 1. the world of the dead 2. underworld 4 <the netherworld of deceit…and espionage — R. M. Nixon> 3. no-man's-land 2 <that lame-duck netherworld so feared by elected officials — Dan Barry>

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also nether world If you refer to a place as a netherworld, you mean that it is dangerous and full of poor people and criminals. Waits sang about the boozy netherworld of urban America. N-SING: usu with supp