Styx
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- proper noun
- /stɪks/
- Literature
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Estigia
- For you'll soon need it to pay passage to Charon to cross the river Styx.
- Styx river
I thought those were ghost buses ferrying spectral passengers across the River Styx.
- I thought those were ghost buses ferrying spectral passengers across the River Styx.
Examples
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"The ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the river Styx..."
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We are the spirits of the dead... ...creatures treading the river Styx.
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If I end up on the river Styx, I will spit in Death's eye and take my chances in hell.
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They're standing there on the far bank of the River Styx.
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The river Styx, again from Greek myth, was a river that separated the world from Hades.
Blog text (20) -
That's Hermes, guiding one of the dead down to the river Styx.
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Veronica must bathe in the healing waters of the River Styx.
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The black water swirled around our thighs, the river Styx in miniature.
Fiction book (1997) -
Deep below, across the frigid River Styx and through the halls of the underworld, Persephone was waging her own protest.
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Her prison lies across the River Styx at the edge of the underworld.
Synonyms
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A river in Greek myths that souls cross to reach the land of the dead
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Etymology
Styx comes from an old Greek word stugein that means 'hate' or 'hateful', and people imagined the Styx as a dangerous river that marks the boundary between life and death.