Associations to the word «Acheron»

Wiktionary

ACHERON, proper noun. (Greek mythology) 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.
ACHERON, proper noun. (literary) Hell
ACHERON, proper noun. A language of Sudan.
ACHERON FOSSAE, proper noun. (astronomy) an area of intense tectonic activity on the surface of Mars; photographed in detail by Mars Express

Dictionary definition

ACHERON, noun. (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King