netherworld
Pronoun
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Pronoun
- The place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth.
- In some religions, one's soul departs to a netherworld, hell, instead of the heavens.
- The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not.
- While I was astrally projecting, I felt my soul pass through many insubstantial netherworlds.
- Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell.
- The missionary was motivated by a sincere desire to rescue souls from eternal torment in the netherworld.
- (by extension) A hidden, shadowy, or sinister subculture, such as that of organized crime.
- Richard had been initiated into the netherworld of dog racing by his father, and knew all the popular greyhound performance-enhancing drugs.
- (subterranean region for spirits of the dead) Hades, hell, nether region, underworld
- (location of the spirit world or afterlife) astral plane, heaven
- (place of punishment after death) damnation, Hades, hell, underworld
- (hidden, shadowy, or sinister subculture) underworld
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