upperworld
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
The surface of the earth, as opposed to the underworld (Hades), or to underground or submarine places.
noun
The higher-ranking part of a society; an elite.
Example Sentences
- "What is that life we ſhall live with him who is the Lord of Life in the upperworld?"
- "In the Elysian fields he finds Eurydice, and takes her by the hand to lead her back to the upperworld."
- "Soon the ogress, fierce and bloodthirsty, she who for more than a hundred years had queened it in the depths, saw that a man - a queer being of the upperworld - had sunk to her realm."
- "Up to this level, the drug traffickers, according to Lupsha, tended "to be outside the legitimate political upperworld of Mexican elite life and national politics" (Lupsha, 1991, p. 43)."