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• There may have been uterine caves in the vicinity suggesting a vaginoid entrance to the underworld.2016, Bill Casselman, At the Wording Desk, page 82. From the entry vaginoid
• And as long as cannabusiness remains highly profitable to the criminal underworld, the battle will continue.2010, Nick Brownlee, This Is Cannabis. From the entry cannabusiness
• Persephone is taken to the underworld by Hades to be his queen.2005, Payam Nabarz, The Mysteries of Mithras: The Pagan Belief That Shaped the Christian World, page 79. From the entry pomegranate
• This guy was like the Jason Vorhees of the underworld or something.2002, Rodney Fenner, Valley of the Shadow, page 122. From the entry Jason Voorhees
• Henry Mayhew, the nineteenth-century chronicler of London's underworld, described the frenzied activity of one ratting contest.1993, Ronald H. Fritze, James Stuart Olson, Randy Roberts, Reflections on World Civilization: A Reader, volume 2, page 102. From the entry ratting
• The exotic atmosphere of the whole queer underworld of antiquedom and of collector-cranks spicily pervades the hook.1915, Life. From the entry antiquedom
• It is named for the Roman god of the underworld.2014, Thomas Wm. Hamilton, Dwarf Planets and Asteroids, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry 134340 Pluto
• In the great myths, the adventures are external, even when they involve such metaphorical spelunkings as the voyage into the underworld.2001, Nancy Hathaway, The Friendly Guide to Mythology, page 277. From the entry spelunking
• To the ancients in Mesopotamia as well as in Mexico this movement was poeticized as a journey through the underworld.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry poeticize
• Aptly enough, glowworms light up their underworld with a pair of chemicals that have a satanic etymology—luciferins and luciferases, after the Latin for “light bringer.”2017 October 6, Ed Yong, “The Most Beautiful Death Trap”, in The Atlantic. From the entry luciferase
• Changing one's status as an underperson living in an underworld often sounds better than it is in fact since the transition is long and difficult.2013, W.K. Bickel, R.J. DeGrandpre, Drug Policy and Human Nature, →ISBN. From the entry underperson
• When asked (in connection with Aeneid VI) 'Do you think everyone ought to descend to the underworld?', he replies briskly, 'Certainly not!2010, P. Martin, Anne Rowe, Iris Murdoch: A Literary Life, page 84. From the entry katabasis
• Unlike other farms, theirs exists in a dim, tidal underworld: barnacle- and starfish-covered pilings hold up a few narrow wooden plankways for the abalone harvesters.2009 August 2, Christine Muhlke, “Kelp Wanted”, in New York Times. From the entry plankway
• Typically these are artistic, intellectual and bohemian milieus, but also the world of international business and high finance, and some mafias and underworlds.1999, Sami Zubaida, “Cosmopolitanism and the Middle East”, in Roel Meijer, editor, Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Authenticity in the…. From the entry milieu
• Civilization is, through the numinosity of divine kingship, the mediation between the impossible heights of the gods and the terrifying depths of the underworld.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry numinosity
• In the underworld beneath the lid on the back of the world turtle, where the god Batara Kala and the goddess Setesuyara lived, there was perpetual darkness.1970, Hubert Sieben, Ian Fraser Grant, Bali: Morning of the World, page 6. From the entry world turtle
• The first female mob bosses had begun ruling their streets with an iron fist, buying, selling, and even marrying their way up the violently masculine hierarchy of the Japanese underworld.1994, Peter Constantine, “Crawling”, in Japanese Slang: Uncensored, North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, published 2003 (5th…. From the entry burglaress

Meaning of underworld

1. noun The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.
2. noun That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice, and particularly those involved in organized crime.
3. noun The portion of a game that is set below ground.

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Questions about underworld in a sentence

How do you use underworld in a sentence?

Underworld is used as a noun. For example: “In Hindu scriptures, the four-eyed dogs Śārvara and Śyāma guard the underworld's entrance.”

What is a short sentence with underworld?

“It is named for the Roman god of the underworld.”

What does underworld mean?

Underworld means the world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.