the underworld
noun
1
: the world of crime and criminals
2
: the place where dead people go in Greek myths
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The twin netherworlds—named after the mythical Greek god of the underworld and the pilot who shuttled souls across the river Styx—circle more than five billion kilometers distant from the sun, along an orbit that Stern’s Pluto expedition took nine years to reach.
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Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Eurydice arrives in the underworld without her memories, and Ruhl has her father reenact the process of teaching her language, of building her a place to live — a room constructed out of string — and of, eventually, having to lose her all of again.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 3 June 2025
After over a decade of living a life built on lies, crime and fraud, the charismatic woman, nicknamed ‘The Ice Queen’ by the underworld, wants out.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Such is happening at the Signature Theatre, where Les Waters is carefully and straightforwardly reviving Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, a play about journeying to the underworld.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 3 June 2025
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Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Eurydice arrives in the underworld without her memories, and Ruhl has her father reenact the process of teaching her language, of building her a place to live — a room constructed out of string — and of, eventually, having to lose her all of again.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 3 June 2025
After over a decade of living a life built on lies, crime and fraud, the charismatic woman, nicknamed ‘The Ice Queen’ by the underworld, wants out.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Such is happening at the Signature Theatre, where Les Waters is carefully and straightforwardly reviving Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, a play about journeying to the underworld.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 3 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for the underworld
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“The underworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20underworld. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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