netherworld in English

noun

1

the underworld of the dead; hell.

The local Indians, the Chumash, had a legend of something that translates roughly to ‘mouth of hell’ - a place where demons emerge from the netherworld and walk the earth.

synonyms: hell, the underworld, the infernal regions, the abyss, eternal damnation, perdition, Hades, Acheron, Gehenna, Tophet, Sheol, the pit

noun

• hell, the underworld, the infernal regions, the abyss, eternal damnation, perdition, Hades, Acheron, Gehenna, Tophet, Sheol, the pit
• underworld, infernal region, hell, hades

Use "netherworld" in a sentence

1. Belgae is an invisible Half Life who is Keats ' guide to the Netherworld

2. The Babylonians also believed in a terrifying netherworld, populated by hideous monsters in human and animal forms.

3. O great spirits from the netherworld leave your celestial abode and speak upon us with your life lessons.

4. One theory is that the intent was to render these attendants unable to flee their posts in the netherworld.

5. The Sumerian afterlife involved a descent into a gloomy netherworld to spend eternity in a wretched existence as a Gidim (ghost).

6. She is the only river to follow from all the three worlds – Swarga (heaven), Prithvi (Earth) and Patala (netherworld or hell).

7. The Agonizer is an Imperial II-class Star Destroyer in the service of the Netherworld Empire during the era of the Galactic Civil War

8. The ancient Greeks claimed that the souls of the dead were ferried across the river Styx to a vast underground realm called the netherworld.