upperworld

Noun

1. Heaven.
   • What is that life we ſhall live with him who is the Lord of Life in the upperworld? - 1790, Timothy Priestley, The Christian's Looking-glass: Or the Timorous Soul's Guide, London: H. Trapp, page 92:
2. The surface of the earth, as opposed to the underworld (Hades), or to underground or submarine places.
   • In the Elysian fields he finds Eurydice, and takes her by the hand to lead her back to the upperworld. - 1886, [Christoph Willibald Ritter von] Gluck, Orpheus: Opera in Four Acts, New York: Charles D. Koppel, page 4:
   • 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. - 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich,...
3. The higher-ranking part of a society; an elite.
   • 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). - 2015, Klaus von Lampe,...