underworld

noun

1 vagrants were forced into the violent underworld of Southwark:

criminal world, world of crime, organized crime;

criminals, gangsters;

informal gangland, mob, mobsters.

2 Osiris, the god of the underworld:

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;

Bible Gehenna, Tophet, Abaddon;

Judaism Sheol;

Greek Mythology Hades, Tartarus, Acheron;

Roman Mythology Avernus;

Scandinavian Mythology Niflheim;

British the other place;

literary the pit, the shades;

archaic the lower world.

▷antonyms heaven, paradise.

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Plutonic relating to the underworld