netherland

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noun

A supposed place to which one's spirit descends upon death; the netherworld.

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Meanings

netherland1

noun
  1. A supposed place to which one's spirit descends upon death; the netherworld.

    Uti presides in Mano-Mano, or spirit-world, in the very depths of the netherland, and at night she climbs to the upper world with her torch to fish for food in a lake.

    1881, Gerald Massey, A Book of the Beginnings, page 565
    1 more example

    2020, Immanuel Velikovsky, In the Beginning, p. 62 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/In_the_Beginning/BUD2DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22netherland%22&pg=PT62&printsec=frontcover Similar rites were celebrated in honor of Adonis, who died and was resurrected after a stay in the netherland, in the mysteries of Orpheus.

Netherland2

proper noun
  1. archaicNetherlands

Origin

netherland · noun

From nether- + land.

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Netherland · proper noun

From nether + land.

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