river styx

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   (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls

   SynonymsStyx

   Broaderriver

   Part ofHell

   Greek mythology

Questions about river styx

What does river styx mean?

river styx means "(Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls".

What is another word for river styx?

Close synonyms include Styx. 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 styx a common word?

river styx 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.