charon : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: charon	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for charon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Charon n (Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Charon \Cha"ron\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?].] (Cless. Myth.) 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. --Shak.