Associations to the word «Netherworld»
Noun
Wiktionary
NETHERWORLD, noun. The place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth.
NETHERWORLD, noun. The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not.
NETHERWORLD, noun. Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell.
NETHERWORLD, noun. (by extension) A hidden, shadowy, or sinister subculture, such as that of organized crime.
Dictionary definition
NETHERWORLD, noun. (religion) the world of the dead; "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"-Theognis.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.