lower world

[ loh-er ]

noun

1. Classical Mythology. the regions of the dead, conceived of as lying beneath the surface of the earth; Hades; the underworld.
2. the earth, as distinguished from the heavenly bodies or from heaven.

lower world

noun

1. the earth as opposed to heaven or the spiritual world
2. another name for hell

Word History and Origins

Origin of lower world¹

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

This outlook into the supreme domain of nature lifts us, for the first time in our work, definitely above the lower world of life.

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His image is found standing on the oldest monument, a form of Ra, the light of the lower world, and king and judge of Hades.

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Far away from the earth, you shall look down upon this lower world, you shall contemplate the great universe in its grandeur.

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Acheron, at first the name of a river of the lower world, came to be used as a name for the whole of the lower world generally.

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The grief of Venus was so great that the gods of the lower world allowed him to spend six months of every year on earth.

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Related Words

• inferno
• misery
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• purgatory