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Acheron

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Ach·er·on  (k-rn, -rn)
n. Greek Mythology
The river of woe, one of the five rivers of Hades.
Acheron [ˈækəˌrɒn]
n Greek myth
1. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) one of the rivers in Hades over which the souls of the dead were ferried by Charon Compare Styx
2. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) the underworld or Hades
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Noun1.AcheronAcheron - (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon
River Acheron
netherworld, Scheol, underworld, Hades, infernal region, Hell - (religion) the world of the dead; "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"-Theognis
Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks


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For my panacea, instead of one of those quack vials of a mixture dipped from Acheron and the Dead Sea, which come out of those long shallow black-schooner looking wagons which we sometimes see made to carry bottles, let me have a draught of undiluted morning air.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
You will find it near the place where the rivers Pyriphlegethon and Cocytus (which is a branch of the river Styx) flow into Acheron, and you will see a rock near it, just where the two roaring rivers run into one another.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
It was about midnight when we cycled through Kingston to Surbiton, having trundled our machines across Ham Fields, mournful in the mist as those by Acheron, and so over Teddington Bridge.
Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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