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Otherworld

//ˈʌðɚˌwɝld// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The other realms of existence beyond the world of mankind, especially the realms of the dead or the fairy folk.

    "In these dreams the spirits of the Otherworld materialized in the shape of animals and spoke to them."

  2. 2
    A world beyond death; an afterlife.
  3. 3
    an abstract spiritual world beyond earthly reality wordnet
  4. 4
    A world other than the everyday world.

    "We do not want, of course, to return to all the crudities and barbarities of the past; but also we do not want to become attenuated and spiritualized out of all mundane sense and recognition, and to live in an otherworld Paradise void of application to earthly affairs."

  5. 5
    A world other than the everyday world.; A mythical abode of otherworldly beings.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From otherworld.

Etymology 2

From Middle English othyr world, oþerr werelld, oþer world, from Old English ōþer weoruld, equivalent to other + world.

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