Acheron

[ækәrɒn]

Definition

(noun.) (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon.

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Definition

(n.) 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.

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Definition

n. death hell—from the name of that river in the infernal regions of classical mythology.—adj. Acheron′tic deadly.

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