Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The river of woe, one of the five rivers of Hades.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek and Roman mythology, the name of a river in Hades, over which the souls of the dead were ferried by Charon; hence, a general name for the lower world.
- noun A genus of neuropterous insects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Myth.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun mythology A
river in the Nether World orinfernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaminglake orgulf . - proper noun literary
Hell - proper noun A
language ofSudan .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon
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Examples
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Acheron is the perfectly mysterious bad boy, and seeing him drawn reminded me how young he was when he stopped aging.
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I would love to hang out with Simi or Acheron from the Dark Hunter series.
Angels' Blood Countdown: Jaci Burton - Riding on Instinct ARC Nalini Singh 2009
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Acheron is a tributary of the river Styx, across which you might be ferried on your way to the underworld.
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Acheron is like Zhark -- perhaps he's just gone through the character generator.
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The thing I like about Acheron is that he is actually a bit crap and seems to enjoy playing at being a bad guy far more than he is at actually being one.
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The word Acheron, in the original language, signifies River of Sorrow.
Pyrrhus Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841
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Acheron is the book that by far tops the list, but other ARCs I'd really love to get my hands on are Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward, Dark Needs at Night's Edge by Kresley Cole, Dawn's Awakening by Lora Leigh, Demon Moon by Meljean Brook, The Lost Duke of Wyndham by Julia Quinn, and Seduce Me At Sunrise by Lisa Kleypas.
Advanced Copies & All That Jazz Nalini Singh 2007
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You shall go down the dark road to Acheron, which is the road of silence and the night.
The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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You shall go down the dark road to Acheron, which is the road of silence and the night.
The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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You shall go down the dark road to Acheron, which is the road of silence and the night.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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