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underworld
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Underworld is a novel published in 1997 by Don DeLillo . It was nominated for the National Book Award , was a best-seller, and is one of DeLillo's better-known novels. Underworld continues to receive general acclaim from literary critics. In 2006, a survey ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Underworld \Un"der*world`\, n. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. That overspreads (with such a reverence) This underworld. --Daniel. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades. The portion of the world which ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice. 2 (context mythology English) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.
Usage examples of underworld.
Two underworld friends get Blass drunk one night and put him to bed in his room at the Manoir de Plaisance Hotel, near Saint-Hippolyte, 45 miles north of Montreal.
All I knew about Sinatra before I started this book was that he was a crooner and a decent actor and a paisan who may or may not have a few underworld connections.
Had a bat, or a mouse, gone ahead of him, Gwalchmai would have taken it for a psychopomp guiding his soul to the underworld, but nothing moved except shadows.
All seething with detail that ramified as you looked at it, then split again into underworlds of minutia.
Before this was all over, Spence was going to meet this Slattery, this king of the underworld, face to face.
It was said that he had traded the pure souls of children to the Keeper of the underworld in exchange for dark indulgences, including the ability to use Subtractive Magic.
When Nicci used Subtractive Magic to eliminate your spent blood, the beast, from its roots in the underworld, got its taste of you, or, more accurately, a measure of your magic.
During one of the respites, idly talking men decided that Aegir and Ran had naught to do with this awful stretch of water, and the skalds must merely have failed to make mention that here reigned Loki and his ugly get, Hela who ruled the underworld.
They had spent a couple of hours already in the monstrous underworld of Los Angeles, and Buffy had seen the respect with which Wesley and Gunn were treated.
Thus the child is born and embraced by the mother, the liberated hero ascends from the underworld to return home after his far-flung odyssey.
This conference between Pug Hoffler and Birdy Zelker - for Cliff was sure that such a talk was taking place in a side room - might mean much in the coming activities that were brewed in the confines of the underworld.
It was frequented by Broadwayites of shabby reputation, a sprinkling of cheap prizefighters, and quite a few of the more sporty figures in the underworld.
Berlin underworld and with the Deutschmark forming a wad in the pocket of my flying suit I felt that the first hurdle was past.
Hydra The beast of Hera, daughter of the serpent-goddess Echidna, guarded the entrance to the underworld at Lerna.
Willie Ecks, and nobody in the underworld had ever made friends and enemies faster.