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acheron
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun acheron has 1 sense
- acheron(n = noun.object) river acheron - (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon; Array is a part of hades, hell, infernal region, netherworld, scheol, underworld
is a kind of river
Derived form adjective acheronian1
CIDE DICTIONARY
acheron, n. [L., fr. Gr. .].
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. Shak. [1913 Webster]
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