Netherworld


noun
1.
the infernal regions; hell.
2.
the afterworld, or the hereafter.
noun
1.
the world after death; the underworld
2.
hell
3.
a criminal underworld
n.

also nether-world, 1630s, “place beneath the earth,” from nether + world.

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