charon

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

Char=on

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun charon has 1 sense

charon(n = noun.person) Array - (Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades; Array

is a kind of

ferryman

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CIDE DICTIONARY

charon, n. [L., fr. Gr. .].

The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. Shak. [1913 Webster]

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THESAURUS

charon

Aides, Aidoneus, Cerberus, Cora, Despoina, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus, Hades, Hel, Kore, Loki, Minos, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Satan

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