Underworld (Noun)
Meaning 1
The criminal class.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The police investigation led them deep into the underworld of organized crime.
- The city's underworld was ruled by a ruthless gang lord who controlled all the local extortion rackets.
- She became embroiled in the underworld of high-stakes counterfeiting after meeting a shady character at a nightclub.
- The FBI spent years infiltrating the underworld of international arms smuggling.
- As a young cop, he had made a name for himself by taking on the city's underworld of prostitution and human trafficking.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
(religion) the world of the dead; "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"-Theognis.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.