Underworld
['ʌndəwɜːld] or ['ʌndɚ'wɝld]
Definition
(n.) The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.
(n.) The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.
(n.) The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes.
(n.) The inferior part of mankind.
Typed by Cyril
Examples
- He was willing to be sealed thus in the underworld, like a soul damned but living forever in damnation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Now she realised that this was the world of powerful, underworld men who spent most of their time in the darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gerald was her escape from the heavy slough of the pale, underworld, automatic colliers. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was all so strange, so extremely desolate, like the underworld, grey, grey, dirt grey, desolate, forlorn, nowhere--grey, dreary nowhere. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He seemed to be the very stuff of the underworld of life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They seldom traverse the underworld at night, for then it is that the great banths prowl the dim corridors seeking their prey. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Dead ahead, and I saw the opening, black and yawning in the glowing dome of this underworld. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They had watchful, underworld faces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Strange, and desolate above all things, like disembarking from the Styx into the desolated underworld, was this landing at night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In their voices she could hear the voluptuous resonance of darkness, the strong, dangerous underworld, mindless, inhuman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checked by Lionel