underworld

IPA: ˈʌndɝwɝɫd

(religion or mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.
That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice, and particularly those involved in organized crime.
(video games) The portion of a game that is set below ground.
Alternative letter-case form of underworld [(religion or mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.]

Examples of "underworld" in Sentences

The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine.
No one even at the highest level of either the government or the criminal underworld is immune to this fact.
The only reason folks would never mistake him for an agent of the underworld is that striking blue pigmentation.
The Egyptian mythology of judgement in the underworld is all geared around this "weighing" metaphor, though there it's more literal with the soul actually put in the scales.
Some people will look at it as more realistic than Violets are Blue, but only because they won't be able to believe that the vampire underworld is as large and real as it is.
We have not sufficiently understood, however, that the underworld is at once a lyrical or metaphysical site and a historical place, even if the ambiguity of its material conditions cannot be isolated from the substance of poetry.
Daniel's fall into this underworld is also a flight, for as he falls in love with the mysterious coral thief and she draws him into an audacious plot that will leave him with a future very different from the one he has envisioned for himself, Daniel discovers a radical theory of evolution and mutability that irrevocably changes his conception of the world in which he lives.