Definition of acherons Acherons
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What does acherons mean?
Part of speech
🔤- acherons, noun, plural of acheron.
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| acheron - (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon | ||
| River Acheron | ||
| netherworld, scheol, hades, infernal region, underworld, hell the criminal class | ||
| greek mythology the mythology of the ancient Greeks | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- acheron (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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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A language of Sudan.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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acheron
ak′kėr-on, n. death, hell—from the name of that river in the infernal regions of classical mythology.—adj. Acheron′tic, deadly
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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acheron
A small stream in ancient Bruttium. In 330 B.C., Alexander, king of Epirus, was killed while crossing it.
