Meaning of upperworld | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Heaven.
2. The surface of the earth, as opposed to the underworld (Hades), or to underground or submarine places.
3. The higher-ranking part of a society; an elite.

Examples

“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).”

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