English-Thai Dictionary

underworld

N สังคม ของ พวก นอกกฎหมาย  sang-kom-kong-puak-nok-kod-mai

 

underworld

N โลก สำหรับ ผู้ ที่ ตาย แล้ว  นรก  ยมโลก  hell abyss hades natherworld lok-sam-rab-phu-ti-tai-laeo

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

UNDERWORLD

UNDERWORLD Un "der *world `, n.

 

1. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. That overspreads (with such a reverence ) This underworld. Daniel.

 

2. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.

 

3. The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes. [R.] Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld. Tennyson.

 

4. The inferior part of mankind. [R.] Atterbury.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

underworld

un der world |ˈəndərˌwərld ˈəndərˌwərld | ▶noun 1 the world of criminals or of organized crime. 2 the mythical abode of the dead, imagined as being under the earth.

 

Oxford Dictionary

underworld

under |world |ˈʌndəwəːld | ▶noun 1 the world of criminals or of organized crime. 2 the mythical abode of the dead, imagined as being under the earth.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

underworld

underworld noun 1 Osiris, god of the underworld : the netherworld, the nether regions, hell, the abyss; eternal damnation; Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, Tophet; informal the other place; literary the pit. ANTONYMS heaven. 2 the city's violent underworld: criminal world, gangland; criminals, gangsters; informal mobsters.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

underworld

underworld noun 1 vagrants were forced into the violent underworld of Southwark: criminal world, world of crime, organized crime; criminals, gangsters; informal gangland, mob, mobsters. 2 Osiris, the god of the underworld: the netherworld, the land /abode of the dead, the infernal regions, the nether regions, hell, the abyss; the abode of the damned, eternal damnation, eternal punishment, perdition; Biblical Gehenna, Tophet, Abaddon; Judaism Sheol; Greek Mythology Hades, Tartarus, Acheron; Roman Mythology Avernus; Scandinavian Mythology Niflheim; Brit. the other place; literary the pit, the shades; archaic the lower world. ANTONYMS heaven, paradise. WORD LINKS underworld Plutonic relating to the underworld Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

underworld

under world /ʌ́ndə r wə̀ː r ld /名詞 〖the ～〗1 犯罪社会 ; 暗黒街 .2 〖通例U -〗〘ギ神 ロ神 〙黄泉 （よみ ）の国, あの世 .3 この世, 下界 .