Associations to the word «Underworld»

Wiktionary

UNDERWORLD, noun. That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice.
UNDERWORLD, noun. (mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.
UNDERWORLD, noun. Alternative letter-case form of underworld

Dictionary definition

UNDERWORLD, noun. The criminal class.
UNDERWORLD, noun. (religion) the world of the dead; "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"-Theognis.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne