Lethe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Greek Mythology The river of forgetfulness, one of the five rivers in Hades.
  • n. A condition of forgetfulness; oblivion.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Death.
  • n. A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.
  • n. Oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Death.
  • n. In Gr. myth.: The personification of oblivion, a daughter of Eris.
  • n. The river of oblivion, one of the streams of Hades, the waters of which possessed the quality of causing those who drank of them to forget their former existence.
  • n. A draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.
  • n. In entomology, a genus of nymphalid butterflies, with one species, L. europa, from the Malay archipelago.
  • An obsolete variant of lithe.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (Greek mythology) a river in Hades; the souls of the dead had to drink from it, which made them forget all they had done and suffered when they were alive
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    river   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    death    oblivion    forgetfulness   
     
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