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netherworld also nether world (NETH-r-wurld) noun

1. The world of the dead; Hades.

2. The underworld; hell.

3. The lower depths of society.

[Middle English, from Old English neothera, from neother, down + world.]

"Jungle juggernauts they may be, but the elephants heaved and struggled to tow the logs through that deep, narrow gorge, a netherworld of dense teak trees through which only slivers of sunlight could penetrate. Anthony Mecir, Michael Freeman, Big trouble, Smithsonian, Sep 1998.

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