Charon

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Charon \Cha"ron\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Cless. Myth.)
     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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Charon
       n : (Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the
           dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "Charon":
     Aides, Aidoneus, Cerberus, Cora, Despoina, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus,
     Hades, Hel, Kore, Loki, Minos, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa,
     Persephone, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Satan