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nether world

or nether·world

noun

  1. the infernal regions; hell.
  2. the afterworld, or the hereafter.


nether world

noun

  1. the world after death; the underworld
  2. hell
  3. a criminal underworld
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nether world1

First recorded in 1630–40
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Example Sentences

In going after the widest audience possible, “Bros” may have fallen into a marketplace nether world — too straight for gay audiences, and too gay for straight ones, some analysts posited.

In the manifesto’s unforgettable words: “A society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.”

Others were sucked into a nether world of buying the same pills on the black market or switching to heroin to meet the craving for ever higher doses.

“To the noncombatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement; but to those who entered the meat grinder itself, the war was a nether world of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on,” he writes.

Then those pre-made products will enter the nether world of sports marketing known as phantom merchandise.

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