river acheron

1. 1.

   (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon

   SynonymsAcheron

   Broaderriver

   Part ofHell

   Greek mythology

Questions about river acheron

What does river acheron mean?

river acheron means "(Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon".

What is another word for river acheron?

Close synonyms include Acheron. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is river acheron a common word?

river acheron is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.