the other place

noun

Hell

“According to Christianity, when someone dies, they go to either Heaven or the other place.”

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Meanings

noun
  1. euphemisticHell

    According to Christianity, when someone dies, they go to either Heaven or the other place.

  2. parliamentarythe other house of a bicameral legislature (used by members of one house when speaking in their own house); in the UK, the House of Lords seen from the House of Commons or vice versa; in Canada, the Senate seen from the House of Commons or vice versa.

    [W]e all trooped from our end of the building to the House of Lords - which I'm told, for some reason, we must never refer to by name. We have to call it 'another place' or 'the other place'[.]

    1999, Gyles Brandreth, chapter 3, in Breaking the Code
  3. UKderogatoryOxford University slangUniversity of Cambridge
  4. UKderogatoryCambridge University slangUniversity of Oxford
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APA

the other place. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/the%20other%20place

MLA

“the other place.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/the%20other%20place. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “the other place,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/the%20other%20place.

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