underworld

Word family noun world underworld worldliness adjective world worldly ≠ unworldly worldwide adverb worldwide

Related topics: Crime

un·der·world /ˈʌndəwɜːld $ ˈʌndərwɜːrld/ noun [singular]

1 SCCthe criminals in a particular place and the criminal activities they are involved in 〔某地的〕黑道，黑社会；犯罪活动

New York’s criminal underworld

纽约的黑社会

2. the Underworld the place where the spirits of the dead are believed to live, for example in ancient Greek stories 〔古希腊神话等中的〕地府，阴间

Examples from the Corpus

underworld• He's accused of having connections with Japan's criminal underworld.• Our reporters uncovered a generation who have been sucked into a dark underworld of solvent abuse and hard drugs.• All of us have our underworld and nether world creatures with whom we carry on some inner conversation.• Virgil too is the only poet who gives clearly the geography of the underworld.• They were seen as the earthly links to the gods of the underworld.• Beneath its coils flows the water of the underworld.• A hot new pachinko machine from a backstreet maker in Osaka has taken the underworld by storm.• He was on his way to the underworld with Pirithous.• Owen has been active in the Los Vegas underworld for years.• The money used to bribe Cronje was raised by Kishan Kumar, a failed Bollywood actor with underworld links, detectives allege.

词汇	underworld
释义	underworld Word family noun world underworld worldliness adjective world worldly ≠ unworldly worldwide adverb worldwide Related topics: Crime un·der·world /ˈʌndəwɜːld $ ˈʌndərwɜːrld/ noun [singular] 1 SCCthe criminals in a particular place and the criminal activities they are involved in 〔某地的〕黑道，黑社会；犯罪活动 New York’s criminal underworld 纽约的黑社会 2. the Underworld the place where the spirits of the dead are believed to live, for example in ancient Greek stories 〔古希腊神话等中的〕地府，阴间 Examples from the Corpus underworld• He's accused of having connections with Japan's criminal underworld.• Our reporters uncovered a generation who have been sucked into a dark underworld of solvent abuse and hard drugs.• All of us have our underworld and nether world creatures with whom we carry on some inner conversation.• Virgil too is the only poet who gives clearly the geography of the underworld.• They were seen as the earthly links to the gods of the underworld.• Beneath its coils flows the water of the underworld.• A hot new pachinko machine from a backstreet maker in Osaka has taken the underworld by storm.• He was on his way to the underworld with Pirithous.• Owen has been active in the Los Vegas underworld for years.• The money used to bribe Cronje was raised by Kishan Kumar, a failed Bollywood actor with underworld links, detectives allege.
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