Usually means: Boatman of the River Styx.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. Charon: Merriam-Webster
  2. Charon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Charon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Charon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Charon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Charon, charon: Wordnik
  7. Charon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Charon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Charon: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Charon: Dictionary.com
  11. Charon (John Wick), Charon (Marvel Comics), Charon (band), Charon (disambiguation), Charon (genus), Charon (gun), Charon (moon), Charon (mythology), Charon (software), Charon (web browser), Charon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Charon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. charon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Charon: Rhymezone
  15. Charon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. charon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. charon: FreeDictionary.org
  18. charon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Charon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. charon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  21. Charon: Merriam-Webster
  22. Charon: Wiktionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia Mythica (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Charon (disambiguation), Charon: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Charon: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Charon: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Charon: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Charon)

▸ noun:  (Greek mythology) The ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) The largest of the five moons of Pluto.
▸ noun:  (poetic) Any ferryman.

Similar:
ferryman, Styx, Charonian, Stix, Charontian, Phlegethon, Acheron, Phlegeton, Hades, Chthonia, more...

Opposite:
Proserpina, Persephone, Hecate

Phrases:
Rita Charon, more...

Adjectives:
old, good, grim, reedy, poor, surly, ancient, right, altherr, real, british

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Similar:
ferryman, Styx, Charonian, Stix, Charontian, Phlegethon, Acheron, Phlegeton, Hades, Chthonia, more...

Opposite:
Proserpina, Persephone, Hecate

Phrases:
Rita Charon, more...

Adjectives:
old, good, grim, reedy, poor, surly, ancient, right, altherr, real, british

Colors:
    charcoal,     graphite,     pewter,     gunmetal,     onyx, more...



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