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underworld noun [ ˈʌndəwəːld ]

• the world of criminals or of organized crime.
• "a man reputed to be a godfather of the Glasgow underworld"
Similar: criminal world, world of crime, organized crime, criminals, gangsters, gangland, mob, mobsters,
• the mythical abode of the dead, imagined as being under the earth.
Similar: the netherworld, the land/abode of the dead, the infernal regions, the nether regions, hell, the abyss, the abode of the damned, eternal damnation, eternal punishment, perdition, Gehenna, Tophet, Abaddon, Sheol, Hades, Tartarus, Acheron, Avernus, Niflheim, the other place, the pit, the shades, the lower world,
Opposite: heaven, paradise,


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