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underworld | avernus |

As a noun underworld

is (underworld).

As a proper noun avernus is

the entrance to hell or the underworld, or the underworld itself.

underworld

English

(wikipedia underworld)

Noun

(en noun)
  • That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice.
  • (mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.

    • Synonyms

    * (world of the dead) netherworld

    See also

    * Hades, Tartarus * hell * Hel, Niflheim, Niflhel * Gehenna

    avernus

    English

    (wikipedia Avernus) (Lake Avernus)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The entrance to Hell or the underworld, or the underworld itself.
  • A lake in Southern Italy.