Overworld

Quick meaning: Overworld is a noun meaning The celestial world.

Meaning

The celestial world.

More Meanings

1. The community of law-abiding citizens.
2. An overarching map or region connecting various disparate towns, dungeons, or stages, usually represented on it by icons.
3. The portion of a game that is set above ground, as opposed to underground caves etc.
4. The entirety of the world where the player can walk around, as opposed to separate game sections for battles, puzzles, etc.

Example Sentences

The overworld theme for the original Super Mario Bros. remains one of the most recognizable video game tunes to date.

This is a steaming underworld: Where are the writhings? Where the cries? We came down from our overworld To see them writhe, to hear their cries.

“O sweet Adonis, none but thee of the children of gods and men ’Twixt overworld and underworld doth pass and pass again... Adonis sweet, Adonis dear,/ Be gracious for another year;/ Thou’rt welcome to thine own alway,/ And welcome we'll both cry to-day/ And next Adonis-tide.’’

The Chippewa believe that there are four "layers," or storeys, of the world above, and four of the world below. This is probably only a reflection in the overworld and the nether world of the fourfold structure of the cosmos, since four is everywhere the Indian's sacred number.

Word Forms

• overworlds

Antonyms for overworld

Common opposites include underworld.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include otherworld, angeldom, heavens, world, afterworld, heaven.

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