styx
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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/stɪks/
Definition of styx
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
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(Greek)The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.
“A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name / Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night, / At which Cocytus quakes and Styx is put to flight.”
“For two-and-twenty years he [Doctor Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Cæsar’s.”
“The Styx was the best-known river in Hades. […] Hades’ house stood on the shore of the Styx.”
“Bornless one / As darkness bright / Found not in tongues / Found not in light / Bring down the rain / Drain waters of Styx / Faustian luminary / Redeem blaspheme / Like a day without the dawn / Like a ray void of the sun / Like a storm that brings no calm / I'm most complete yet so undone”
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(Greek)The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.
“A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name / Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night, / At which Cocytus quakes and Styx is put to flight.”
“For two-and-twenty years he [Doctor Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Cæsar’s.”
“The Styx was the best-known river in Hades. […] Hades’ house stood on the shore of the Styx.”
“Bornless one / As darkness bright / Found not in tongues / Found not in light / Bring down the rain / Drain waters of Styx / Faustian luminary / Redeem blaspheme / Like a day without the dawn / Like a ray void of the sun / Like a storm that brings no calm / I'm most complete yet so undone”
- The 5th moon of Pluto, discovered in 2012.
- A locality in the Derwent Valley council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
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