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un⋅der⋅world

  [uhn-der-wurld]
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–noun
1. the criminal element of human society.
2. the imagined abode of departed souls or spirits; Hades.
3. a region below the surface, as of the earth or a body of water.
4. the opposite side of the earth; the antipodes.
5. Archaic. the earth.
Origin:
1600–10; under- + world
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Word Origin & History

underworld 
1608, "the lower world, Hades," also "the earth," as distinguished from heaven (1609). Cf. Ger. unterwelt, Du. onderwereld, Dan. underverden. Meaning "lower level of society" is first recorded 1890; "criminals and organized crime collectively" is attested from 1900.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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