Definitions for Charon

Charon Char·on

Spelling: [kair-uh n, kar-]
IPA: /ˈkɛər ən, ˈkær-/

Charon is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in Charon (achnor).

Definitions for Charon

noun

  1. Classical Mythology. the ferryman who conveyed the souls of the dead across the Styx.
  2. (usually used ironically) any ferryman.
  3. Astronomy. the natural satellite of Pluto, discovered in 1978.

Examples for Charon

“I understood you had something to say to me,” said Charon, after he had greeted the others.

Charon has paddled him off; he has mingled with the crowded republic of the dead.

He would have followed, but Charon, now on guard, drove him back.

This time the ill-looking Charon made no venture for my purse.

Here he touched an electric button, and Charon came in answer.

Here Charon stopped his soliloquy and his boat simultaneously.

“Right away,” said Charon, noting by the clock that it was the hour of midnight.

In particular, Pluto could be ringed: we know it has at least five moons, which, other than Charon, are tiny.

Nothing was said, but they got silently into the boat, which might have been Charon's craft for all he could see of it.

I was upon the Styx, and in my rower I recognised the redoubtable Charon.

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