Definitions of Charon [ˈkɛər ən, ˈkær-]

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Charon
a ferryman of Greek myth who conveyed the souls of the dead across the Styx.

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1. (noun) Charon
(Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades

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Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Charon
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

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The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. Charon
in the Greek mythology the ferryman of the ghosts of the dead over the Styx into Hades, a grim old figure with a mean dress and a dirty beard, peremptory in exacting from the ghosts he ferried over the obolus allowed him for passage-money.

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