Usually means: Darkness from Greek mythology's underworld.
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  1. Erebus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Erebus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Erebus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Erebus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Erebus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Erebus: Wordnik
  7. Erebus: Wiktionary
  8. Erebus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Erebus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Erebus, erebus: Dictionary.com
  11. Erebus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Erebus (crater), Erebus (disambiguation), Erebus (moth), Erebus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Erebus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. erebus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Erebus: Rhymezone
  16. Erebus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. erebus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. erebus: FreeDictionary.org
  19. erebus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Erebus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Erebus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. Erebus: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Erebus: Encyclopedia

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  1. erebus: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Erebus)

▸ noun:  (Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
▸ noun:  (Greek mythology) The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
▸ noun:  A volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus.

Similar:
Erebos, eros, Dies, Hypnos, Oneiroi, Aether, Keres, Eris, Eumenides, Chthonia, more...

Opposite:
nyx, light, day, brightness

Phrases:
Mount Erebus, erebus mount, HMS Erebus, Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site, more...

Adjectives:
black, dark, mount, volcanic, old, lowest, active, sulphurous, gloomy, fated, human

Colors:
    black,     charcoal,     ebony,     onyx,     obsidian, more...
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Similar:
Erebos, eros, Dies, Hypnos, Oneiroi, Aether, Keres, Eris, Eumenides, Chthonia, more...

Opposite:
nyx, light, day, brightness

Phrases:
Mount Erebus, erebus mount, HMS Erebus, Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site, more...

Adjectives:
black, dark, mount, volcanic, old, lowest, active, sulphurous, gloomy, fated, human

Colors:
    black,     charcoal,     ebony,     onyx,     obsidian, more...



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