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Styx

Pronunciation: /stɪks/
Greek Mythology
Definition of Styx
  • one of the nine rivers in the underworld, over which Charon ferried the souls of the dead.

Origin:

from Greek Stux, from stugnos 'hateful, gloomy'

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