settings
[⛌]
HOME
top (A-D)
►
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
☆
Alice in Wonderland
And Then There Were None
☆
Anna Karenina
Archer
Blackadder
Catch-22
☆
The Color Purple
The Da Vinci Code
top (E-H)
►
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
Hamlet
The Hound of the Baskervilles
top (I-P)
►
The Idiot
Jane Eyre
Keeping Up Appearances
Middlemarch
☆
1984
The Pillars of the Earth
top (Q-Z)
▼
Rebecca
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Slaughterhouse-Five
☆
Treasure Island
☆
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
War and Peace
*
The Ways of White Folks
Wuthering Heights
The Young Lions
overview
⇳ title list
FAQ
site news
contact
☰
ajvocab.com
War and Peace
vocabulary
3 mythology vocabulary words
< select a category
ALL
mythology
3 [mythology] words
Diana
Sphinx
Charon
This page requires javascript.
help & settings
[x]
display help icons
show definition by default
show uses by default
select font:
default
Alegreya
Alegreya Sans
Arvo
Caviar Dreams
Crimson
DejaVu Sans
Linux Libertine
Merriweather
Open-Dyslexic
Open-Dyslexic-Alta
Open Sans
Sansation
Source Sans Pro
Tiresias
Charon
tags:
[mythology]
► definition
Definition:
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.
Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
painting: By Alexander Litovchenko
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4094737
► uses
Uses:
Down the sable flood we glided, I thought of the Styx, and of
Charon
rowing some solitary soul to the Land of Shades.
Charlotte Brontë. Villette
---
get into the barque, and take care not to make it a barque of
Charon
.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 10 (Book Ten)
---
Troilius: No, Pandarus, I stalk about her door,
Like to a strange soul upon the Stygian banks
Staying for waftage. O, be thou my
Charon
,
And give me swift transportance to these fields
Where I may wallow in the lily-beds
Propos’d for the deserver!
William Shakespeare. The History of Troilus and Cressida (1602)
ajvocab
wiktionary
wikipedia
duckduckgo
online etymology
wordnik .com
pantheon .org
classic thesaurus
>
search:
help with search