Usually means: River in Greek mythology; underworld.
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  1. Acheron: Merriam-Webster
  2. Acheron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Acheron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Acheron: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Acheron: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acheron: Wordnik
  7. Acheron: Wiktionary
  8. Acheron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Acheron: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Acheron, acheron: Dictionary.com
  11. Acheron: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Acheron (Dungeons & Dragons), Acheron (band), Acheron (disambiguation), Acheron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Acheron: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. acheron: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Acheron: Rhymezone
  16. Acheron: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Acheron: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  18. acheron: FreeDictionary.org
  19. acheron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Acheron: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Acheron: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. Acheron: Merriam-Webster

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  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

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  1. Acheron: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acheron: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acheron: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Acheron)

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.
noun:  (literary) Hell
noun:  A small town in Victoria, Australia.
noun:  A language of Sudan.

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