acheron
/ˈæ.kəɹ.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.08 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A river in the infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets, it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.
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A small town in Victoria, Australia.
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A language of Sudan.
Example Sentences
- "Ile diue into the burning lake belowe, / And pull her out of Acaron by the heeles."
- "Acheron and Phlegeton, which a subterraneous fire causes to boil, are the billows of that hell which was visited by Æneas."
- "The Greeks believed that Hades was beneath the earth. It had five rivers—the Acheron, the Kokytos, the Lethe, the Pyriphlegethon, and the Styx. Each served as a boundary between the land of the living and the land of the dead."
- "Behold! I rise from primal silence / As a storm crushing dismal shores ov Acheron"
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Acherōn, from Ancient Greek Ἀχέρων (Akhérōn), probably Pre-Greek but folk-etymologically said to be from ἄχος (ákhos, “pain, distress”) + ῥέον (rhéon, “stream”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Acherōn, Ἀχέρων
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