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(ʌndəʳwɜːʳld)
1. singular noun [oft NOUN noun, noun NOUN]
The underworld in a city is the organized crime there and the people who are involved in it.
...a Spanish Harlem underworld of gangs and violence.
Some claim that she still has connections to the criminal underworld.
...a wealthy businessman with underworld connections.
Synonyms: criminals, gangsters, organized crime, gangland [informal] More Synonyms of underworld
2. singular noun
In many ancient religions and legends, the underworld is a place under the earth's surface where people go after they die.
...Persephone, goddess of the underworld.
Synonyms: nether world, hell, Hades, the inferno More Synonyms of underworld

underworld in British English

(ˈʌndəˌwɜːld)
noun
1. 
a. 
criminals and their associates considered collectively
b. 
(as modifier)
underworld connections
2. 
the regions below the earth's surface regarded as the abode of the dead; Hades
▶ Related adjectives: , chthonian, chthonic

underworld in American English

(ˈʌndərˌwɜrld)
noun
1.  Archaic
the earth
2. 
the mythical world of the dead; Hades
3. 
the opposite side of the earth; antipodes
4. 
the criminal members of society, or people living by vice or crime, regarded as a group or class

Examples of 'underworld' in a sentence
underworld

These are tools of the criminal underworld.
The Sun (2014)
The hit on him caused an earthquake in the criminal underworld.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
No one in the criminal underworld will know her name or address.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
My book shows that worries about the criminal underworld have long been with us.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Middle-class growers often make a big show about how their activities bypass the criminal underworld.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But this painting also draws him into a murky criminal underworld.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
She gets on the blower to her underworld boss.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
What saved me in jail was that a powerful underworld boss took pity on me and protected me.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
But his frantic search only pulls himself further into the murky French underworld.
The Sun (2010)
The history of the city 's underworld is amazing.
The Sun (2010)
The two underworld enforcers were last month sentenced in their absence to a minimum 22 years for conspiracy.
The Sun (2012)
In some cases they were backed up by underworld figures, rather as street gangs fight over geographical territory.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Rumours in the criminal underworld suggest that Basil is so secretive that his own wife would not know of his involvement.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
An agency set up to target leading underworld figures is costing four times more to run than it recovers, figures will show today.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He was 78 and one of the last of a breed of underworld figures who became a figure of criminal folklore in his own lifetime.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
But Glasgow's criminal underworld is not about to let him go without a fight.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
By night, he is a poet of the city 's underworld.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He dreams of becoming a photographer, but is drawn time and time again into the city 's criminal underworld.
The Sun (2009)
AN underworld boss whose network has smuggled thousands of illegal immigrants into Britain is exposed today by a Sun investigation.
The Sun (2016)

In other languages
underworld

British English: underworld NOUN
The underworld in a city is the organized crime there and the people who are involved in it.
...an underworld of criminals.
  • American English: underworld
  • Brazilian Portuguese: submundo
  • Chinese: 黑社会
  • European Spanish: submundo
  • French: pègre
  • German: Unterwelt
  • Italian: malavita
  • Japanese: 悪の世界
  • Korean: 암흑가
  • European Portuguese: submundo
  • Latin American Spanish: submundo

Chinese translation of 'underworld'

underworld

(ˈʌndəwəːld)

n

  1. the underworld (criminal) 黑社会(會) (hēishèhuì) (Myth) 阴(陰)间(間) (yīnjiān)
1 (noun) 
Definition
criminals and their associates
a wealthy businessman with connections to the underworld
Synonyms
criminals
gangsters
organized crime
gangland (informal)
criminal element
2 (noun) 
Definition
the regions below the earth's surface regarded as the abode of the dead
Persephone, goddess of the underworld
Synonyms
nether world
hell
Don't worry about going to Hell, just be good.
Hades
Zeus finally sent Hermes to Hades with a request to return the maiden.
the inferno
nether regions
infernal region
abode of the dead

related words

related adjectives chthonianchthonic

Additional synonyms

in the sense of Hades
Definition
the underworld home of the souls of the dead
Zeus finally sent Hermes to Hades with a request to return the maiden.
Synonyms
underworld,
hell,
nether regions,
lower world,
infernal regions,
realm of Pluto,
(the) inferno
in the sense of hell
Definition
(in various religions and cultures) the abode of the spirits of the dead
Don't worry about going to Hell, just be good.
Synonyms
the underworld,
the abyss,
Hades,
hellfire,
the inferno,
fire and brimstone,
the bottomless pit,
Gehenna,
the nether world,
the lower world,
Tartarus,
the infernal regions,
the bad fire (informal),
Acheron,
Abaddon,
the abode of the damned

Synonyms of 'underworld'

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