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 film tells the story of a man who is spirited away to the underworld and held captive by a dead woman who prevents him from returning to his beloved in the land of the living.
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Jacob Bernstein, Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
Ancient Egyptian mythology held that Abydos served as the burial place for Osiris, god of the underworld.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2025
These obligations and responsibilities have become a shell, and the men underneath them need to emerge, soft and vulnerable, like cicadas crawling out of the underworld and shedding their exoskeletons.
—Jessa Crispin, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
These artifacts, found in a cave considered part of the underworld, may be connected to ideas of creation and fertility.
—Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
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Jacob Bernstein, Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
Ancient Egyptian mythology held that Abydos served as the burial place for Osiris, god of the underworld.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2025
These obligations and responsibilities have become a shell, and the men underneath them need to emerge, soft and vulnerable, like cicadas crawling out of the underworld and shedding their exoskeletons.
—Jessa Crispin, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
These artifacts, found in a cave considered part of the underworld, may be connected to ideas of creation and fertility.
—Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 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 May. 2025.
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