(Religion) the world of the dead.
(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment.
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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 Artemis resumed her cradling position as Zeus crawled over to Hades ' side.
2 The matter is serious, very serious indeed; all Hades is in commotion.
3 If any ask after me, tell them to seek me in Hades .
4 Every muscle in my body is raising particular Hades at this moment.
5 Of that the old creature in her nethermost Hades was nearly incapable.
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.
6 The Ygg-drasill has three roots; two spring from the infernal regions -i.e.
7 AVERNUS, n. The lake by which the ancients entered the infernal regions .
8 Gamers manage mortal souls as they enter the celestial or infernal regions .
9 His eleventh labor consisted in dragging Cerebus from the infernal regions into day.
10 The division assigned to Rhadamanthus in the infernal regions was Tartărus.
11 The place was like an antechamber of the infernal regions proper.
12 It was like a bit of Gustave Doré's idea of the infernal regions .
13 You remember when Dante began his journey into the infernal regions -
14 It was like a pagan orgy or a scene from the infernal regions .
15 But one might say that, of course, of the infernal regions .
16 It was as if the gates of the infernal regions had been suddenly opened.
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This collocation consists of: Translations for infernal region