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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
netherworld

also nether-world, 1630s, "place beneath the earth," from nether + world.

Wiktionary
netherworld

n. 1 The place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth. 2 The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not. 3 Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell. 4 (context by extension English) A hidden, shadowy, or sinister subculture, such as that of organized crime.

WordNet
netherworld

n. (religion) the world of the dead; "he didn't want to go to hell when he died" [syn: Hel, Hell, Hades, infernal region, Scheol, underworld]

Wikipedia
Netherworld

Netherworld may refer to:

  • Underworld, a region thought to be beneath the surface of the world in many religions and mythologies

In film and television:

  • Netherworld (film), a 1992 American horror film
  • Nether World, a 1997 film starring Mark Sheppard
  • "Netherworld" (The Dead Zone), an episode of The Dead Zone
  • Netherworld, the fictional source of all villains in Power Rangers Samurai

In literature:

  • Netherworld (DC Comics), a fictional autonomous neighborhood of the city of Chicago
  • Netherworld (Runelords), an alternate plane of existence in The Runelords novel series by David Farland
  • The Nether World, an 1889 novel by George Gissing
  • Netherworld (Marvel Comics), in the Marvel Comics universe, a city ruled by Kala

In other uses:

  • Netherworld (video game), a 1988 8-bit computer game
  • Netherworld Haunted House, a walk-through dark attraction established in 1997, in Atlanta, Georgia
  • Netherworld, a fictional location in the video game Perfect Cherry Blossom
  • The Nether, a dimension in the video game Minecraft
Netherworld (video game)

Netherworld is a shoot 'em up video game.

Netherworld (DC Comics)

The Netherworld is a fictional autonomous neighborhood of the city of Chicago in the DC Comics universe. It first appears in Hawkworld #30 (January, 1993), it was created by John Ostrander and Tim Truman.

Netherworld (film)

Netherworld is a 1992 American horror-romance film written and directed by David Schmoeller and produced by Charles Band.

Netherworld (Top Cow)

Netherworld is a joint comic book venture of Top Cow Productions and Heroes and Villains Entertainment.

Usage examples of "netherworld".

That is why the Patalganga is so named, because it is that stage of the holy Ganga that traverses the netherworld.

Leaning forward, Sebastian rapped on the front panel, then settled his hat low over his eyes and wound his scarf carefully about his lower face as the jarvey cut in close to the curb and pulled up in the shadowy netherworld between two streetlamps.

Everyone in the Netherworld must know that Prince Wylles is again healthy.

They descend below this surface layer and into the netherworld of code and tangled nam-shubs that supports it, where everything that you see in the Metaverse, no matter how lifelike and beautiful and three-dimensional, reduces to a simple text file: a series of letters on an electronic page.

For they belong to that weird netherworld of unbiological beings, salient members of which are the chimera, the unicorn, the sphinx, the werewolf, and the hound of the hedges and the sea serpent.

Mag said love was deeper there, babies healthier, and that there was in the upperworld a power that had been lost in the Netherworld.

She stared, then fled for the bushes at the end of the terrace, shocked to see him so suddenly, shocked to see a Netherworlder using an upperworld machine.

If exposed, such a stone could send out a call to the dead, summoning ghosts or ghouls, or any other netherworld monsters in the area.

We had set out through the netherworld of an industrial zone where the first Bactrian camels I had ever seen in the wild were grazing in the outer yard of a cement plant.

Led by their Mark, they turned back toward the bluff out of which they had come, back into the rent in the air that had given them passage into Landover, and descended down again into their netherworld home.

I was burnt out from my five-year run in the restaurant netherworld as a not very good chef-in rehab for heroin, still doing cocaine, broke-and reduced to working brunches at a ridiculous mom and pop restaurant in SoHo where they served lion, tiger, hippopotamus braciole and other dead zoo animals.

Dark outlines shimmered in the haze, the burnt, scorched leavings of those dead who had come from the netherworld.

You must be fluent in not only Spanish but the Kabbala-like intricacies of health codes, tax law, fire department regulations, environmental protection laws, building code, occupational safety and health regs, fair hiring practices, zoning, insurance, the vagaries and back-alley back-scratching of liquor licenses, the netherworld of trash removal, linen, grease disposal.

Slowly they rode out of that ghastly cavern in a nameless netherworld and stood, a company of death, upon the slippery slopes of the mountains.