"upperworld" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From upper + world.",
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          "ref": "1790, Timothy Priestley, The Christian's Looking-glass: Or the Timorous Soul's Guide, London: H. Trapp, page 92:",
          "text": "What is that life we ſhall live with him who is the Lord of Life in the upperworld?",
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          "text": "In the Elysian fields he finds Eurydice, and takes her by the hand to lead her back to the upperworld.",
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          "ref": "1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 36:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "The surface of the earth, as opposed to the underworld (Hades), or to underground or submarine places."
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