Associations to the word «Styx»

Wiktionary

STYX, proper noun. (Greek mythology) The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.
STYX, proper noun. (astronomy) The 5th moon of Pluto, discovered in 2012.

Dictionary definition

STYX, noun. (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne