(Religion) the world of the dead.
(Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone.
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Examples for "underworld "
Examples for "underworld "
1 They hide in the crannies of the underworld ; politics is their protection.
2 The Chicago Crime Commission concluded: The underworld was well-represented at the meeting.
3 They are often very good Healers, or Travelers in the Mother's underworld .
4 Spying on the underworld is an important part of the office's work.
5 The links between cricket and the underworld go back a long way.
1 Nothing lived there that hadn't crossed over into the netherworld long ago.
2 Yet Shadoath had come from the netherworld , and she bore such runes.
3 Some were beasts of the netherworld and looked in no way human.
4 But the magnificent pine of the netherworld held the storm at bay.
5 The door to the netherworld still looked as if it was open.
1 The messengers prayed her to assist in weeping Baldur out of Hel .
2 He stared at her with an astonishment that Hel found quite unflattering.
3 Maddy on one side, Hel on the other, Balder in the middle.
4 Around his neck Hel 's deathwatch indicated that they had thirty-eight minutes left.
5 With a flick of her dead fingers, Hel made the window disappear.
1 No really, this area of Manhattan New York is called Hell 's Kitchen.
2 But in the torment of Hell shall the wicked remain for ever:
3 I cannot cross the barrier; Hell has posted the Vertumni as sentinels.
4 Barcelona in August was like the Hell to which Emile likened it.
5 Somewhere among the Off Islands; on the Terrier, maybe, or the Hell -meadows .
1 For good or evil, my fate lies ahead, in the bowels of this infernal region .
2 A continual roaring filled his ears, and it seemed as if he was being drawn into some infernal region .
3 Here flows the Styx, the River of Hate, nine times round the infernal region , dark waters flooded with ancient mysteries.
4 Macrobius writes, in his commentary on the "Dream of Scipio," "Here, on earth, is the cavern of Dis, the infernal region .
5 Soon after we leave this infernal region we hear a constant roar like that coming from a large steamer about to leave its moorings.
In Greek mythology, the underworld and abode of the dead.
1 I was in a hades peopled with the ghosts of Handel's operas.
2 Now then, where in hades do you get this crazy notion?
3 He was buried in the very centre of the earth-orthe centre of hades .
4 At B it is found broken by a fault f which hades toward A.
5 Artemis resumed her cradling position as Zeus crawled over to Hades ' side.
6 The matter is serious, very serious indeed; all Hades is in commotion.
7 If any ask after me, tell them to seek me in Hades .
8 Every muscle in my body is raising particular Hades at this moment.
9 Of that the old creature in her nethermost Hades was nearly incapable.
10 Another upgrade Hades made: he tightened security at the gates of Erebos.
11 Phlegethon: a river of Hades in which flowed flames instead of water.
12 Hades had lost its terrors; no place could be found for it.
13 This time, Hades sent the messenger god Hermes to look for Sisyphus.
14 There had been an earthquake, all right, and it was Hades 's fault.
15 An inquirer had asked how Epicurus fared in Hades , and was told:
16 Yes, and where were Persephone's guards that day that Hades got her?
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