STYX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Styx mean? 

• STYX (noun)
  The noun STYX has 1 sense:

1. (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls

  Familiarity information: STYX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STYX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

River Styx; Styx

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

Holonyms ("Styx" is a part of...):

Hades; Hell; infernal region; netherworld; Scheol; underworld ((religion) the world of the dead)

 Context examples 

And at the dinner, where, with their womankind, were half a dozen of those that sat in high places, and where Martin found himself quite the lion, Judge Blount, warmly seconded by Judge Hanwell, urged privately that Martin should permit his name to be put up for the Styx—the ultra-select club to which belonged, not the mere men of wealth, but the men of attainment.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)