Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cross the styx

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English

Syllables: cross the styx
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To die.

Humorous; Intransitive verb; Literary

Example Sentences

"The following day Nigel apologized for what he described as an unhappy domestic interlude. “Marietta tells me that you are going to come over every day until . . . I cross the Styx.” I heard him chuckle. “Jolly nice of you, old boy.”"
"We know what’s sprouting, but Mantel’s trilogy lets us imagine that it might all have been different. Did Anne Boleyn’s neck have to meet the sword of an executioner brought from Calais to do her in? Did Thomas Cromwell have to cross the Styx himself four years later?"

Etymology

From Greek mythology, after Styx, a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld, over which the ferryman Charon transports the souls of the newly dead. See Styx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Usage

Inflected Forms

crosses the Styx (present, singular) crossing the Styx (participle, present) crossed the Styx (participle, past) crossed the Styx (past)

Synonyms

assume room temperature auger in be called home be gathered to one's fathers be like the the One be no more be with Jesus be with the Lord bite the big one bite the biscuit bite the dust buy the farm

Questions

What does cross the styx mean?: To die.
Where does cross the styx come from?: From Greek mythology, after Styx, a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld, over which the ferryman Charon transports the souls of the newly dead. See Styx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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