Charon
pronunciation
How to pronounce Charon in British English:
UK ['kɛrən]
How to pronounce Charon in American English:
US [ˈkɛrən]
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- Noun:
- (Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades
Word Origin
- Charon
- ferryman of the dead over the river Styx, from Greek Kharon, which is of unknown origin.
Example
- 1. I will not part , charon !
- 2. Pluto has three moons ; charon , nix and hydra .
- 3. A simulated low-speed crash between comparably sized planetoids yields a pluto and a charon , plus an icy debris disk that could coalesce into a nix and a hydra .
- 4. Pluto has a moon , charon , half the size of the planet .
- 5. An impact has long been ____4____ for the birth of charon , the largest plutonian moon , but canup ran impact simulations to show that nix and hydra , two much smaller satellites discovered in 2005 , may be debris from the same collision .