Associations to the word «Underworld»

Wiktionary

UNDERWORLD, noun. That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice.
UNDERWORLD, noun. (mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.
UNDERWORLD, noun. Alternative letter-case form of underworld

Dictionary definition

UNDERWORLD, noun. The criminal class.
UNDERWORLD, noun. (religion) the world of the dead; "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"-Theognis.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats