What is the difference between netherworld and hell?
netherworld | hell |
The place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth.
The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not.
Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell.
(by extension) A hidden, shadowy, or sinister subculture, such as that of organized crime.
In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death
(Abrahamic religions, uncountable) The place where devils live and where sinners are tortured after death
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost
* 1916 , James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(countable, hyperbole) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
* 1879 , General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy
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(countable) A place for gambling.
* W. Black
* 1907 , (Joseph Conrad), The Secret Agent
An extremely hot place.
(Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun)
(obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
Hell is a synonym of netherworld.
As nouns the difference between netherworld and hell
is that netherworld is the place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth while hell is a place or situation of great suffering in life.As a proper noun hell is
in various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death.As an interjection hell is
Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.netherworld
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Alternative forms
* nether worldNoun
(en noun)- In some religions, one's soul departs to a netherworld , hell, instead of the heavens.
- While I was astrally projecting, I felt my soul pass through many insubstantial netherworlds .
- The missionary was motivated by a sincere desire to rescue souls from eternal torment in the netherworld .
- Richard had been initiated to the netherworld of dog racing by his father, and knew all the popular greyhound performance enhancing drugs.
Usage notes
Depending on cultural context, it may be appropriate to construct this as the netherworld , if only one is supposed to exist.Synonyms
* (subterranean region for spirits of the dead) Hades, hell, nether region, underworld * (location of the spirit world or afterlife) astral plane, heaven * (place of punishment after death) damnation, Hades, hell, underworld * underworldhell
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(wikipedia hell)Alternative forms
* (Christianity) Hell * *Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Do Muslims believe that all non-Muslims go to hell ?
- May you rot in hell !
- Better to reign in Hell' than serve in ' Heaven .
- Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.
Synonyms
* (euphemisms for Christian place for damned souls after death) Hades, heck, infernal region, inferno, netherworld, underworld * (Mormonism) Spirit]] [[prison, PrisonAntonyms
* (sense) heavenNoun
(en noun)- My new boss is making my job a hell .
- I went through hell to get home today.
- There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell .
- a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless
- You don't have a snowball's chance in hell .
- I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.
- What the hell is wrong with you?
- He says he's going home early? Like hell he is.
- (Hudibras)