Acheron Definition

ăkə-rŏn, -rən
noun
The river of woe, one of the five rivers of Hades.
American Heritage
A river in Hades: often identified as the river across which Charon ferries the dead.
Webster's New World
Hades; infernal regions.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • River Acheron
pronoun

(mythology) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.

Wiktionary

(literary) Hell.

Wiktionary

A language of Sudan.

Wiktionary

Origin of Acheron

  • From Latin Acheron, from Ancient Greek Ἀχέρων (Acherōn), from ὁ ἄχεα ῥέων (ho akhea rheōn, “the stream of woe”).

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Acheron Sentence Examples

  • It was his duty to ferry over the Styx (or Acheron) those souls of the deceased who had duly received the rites of burial, in payment for which service he received an obol, which was placed in the mouth of the corpse.

  • The name is also applied in Greek mythology to a tributary of the Acheron or of the Styx, a river in Hades.

  • There is a real river Acheron in north west Greece.

  • If he had not taken upon himself the responsibility of Laura Bridgman's education and led her out of the pit of Acheron back to her human inheritance, should I be a sophomore at Radcliffe College to-day--who can say?

  • You forget that death comes to the rich and the poor alike, and comes once for all; but remember, Acheron could not be bribed by gold to ferry the crafty Prometheus back to the sunlit world.

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Words Starting With

AACACH

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NONRON

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