Usually means: Forgetfulness river in Greek mythology.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. lethe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Lethe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lethe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Lethe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Lethe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lethe, lethe: Wordnik
  7. Lethe, lethe: Wiktionary
  8. Lethe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Lethe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Lethe: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Lethe: Dictionary.com
  12. Lethe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Lethe (disambiguation), Lethe (genus), Lethe (video game), Lethe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Lethe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. lethe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Lethe: Rhymezone
  17. Lethe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. lethe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. lethe: Free Dictionary
  20. lethe: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. lethe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lethe: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lethe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lethe, lethe: A Word A Day

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See lethean as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Lethe)

noun:  (Greek mythology) The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.
noun:  (Greek mythology) The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.
noun:  Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.
noun:  Dissimulation.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) Death.

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