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ˈoverworld
[over- 1 d.]
1. The celestial or immaterial world.
1858Sears Athanasia iii. ix. 325 They [primitive men] believed there was an overworld where God resided in space, and an underworld where all departed spirits were gathered together. 1905V. McNabb Oxf. Conf. on Faith 33 We would then represent our agnostic as saying..‘We are quite certain that there are natural forces and a great world of nature, of which we are a part. But we cannot get beyond this world. There may be an overworld, or an immanent world.’ 1966Punch 1 June 803/1 Since West Indies cricket was baptised..in 1928, it has produced players fit..to play in some overworld a representative company of cricket immortals. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Mar. 249/2 Krishnamurti at thirteen found himself translated..into the theosophical over-world or under-world inhabited by the Lords Maitreya and Koot Hoomi on the astral..plane.
2. The terrestrial world, the earth, land, viewed from beneath water.
1911Beerbohm Zuleika D. xix. 290 He floated up. There was air in that over-world. 1958L. Durrell Mountolive i. 15 Water-tortoises and frogs and sliding fish—a whole population disturbed by this intrusion from the overworld.
3. The community of conventional, law-abiding citizens, as opposed to the ‘underworld’.
1938F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad i. 13 The difference between the Underworld and the Overworld folk is that one lot works for a living; the other ‘acquires’ wealth and regards toil as sin. 1950[see Mr. Fix s.v. 2 e]. 1959Encounter May 29/2 The counter-society or underworld is, like the society or overworld which has expressed it from its own body, class-ridden. |