Borrowed from both Latin Charōn (“Charon”) and Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn, “Charon”), the Hadean ferryman from Greek mythology.

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Charontidae – certain whip spiders.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Chelicerata – subphylum; Arachnida – class; Amblypygi - order; Charontoidea - superfamily; Charontidae - family

• (genus): Charon grayi (giant whip-spider) - type species; for other species see Charon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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From Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn). The name of the moon was coined by American astronomer James W. Christy in 1978, in reference to a fictional moon of Pluto in a novel by Edmond Hamilton but also influenced by its similarity to Char, a pet name for Charlene, his wife's name — hence the alternative American pronunciation, which is used at NASA.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛəɹɒn/, /ˈkɛːrən/
• (US) (Greek mythology): IPA^(key): /ˈkɛəɹən/

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• (US) (astronomy): IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛəɹɑn/, /ˈkɛəɹɑn/, /-ɹən/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹən, -ɛəɹɒn
• Hyphenation: Char‧on

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Charon

1. (Greek mythology) The ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx.
2. (astronomy) The largest of the five moons of Pluto.

• (astronomy): ⯕

• Charonian
• Charonic
• Charon's obol

• (moons of Pluto) Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra

Charon (plural Charons)

1. (poetic) Any ferryman.

• Anchor, achorn, anchor, archon, noarch, rancho

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn).

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -aron
• Hyphenation: Cha‧ron

Charon m inan (relational adjective charonský)

2. (astronomy) Charon (moon of Pluto)
   • 1989, Jiří Grygar, Vladimír Železný, Okna vesmíru dokořán, Praha: Naše vojsko, →ISBN, page 107:

     Charon „visí“ trvale nad určitým místem povrchu Pluta podobně jako geostacionární umělé družice Země nad pozemskou stanicí.

     Charon "hangs" above a certain point of the Pluto's surface in a similar way as geostationary artificial satellites of the Earth above a terrestrial station.

Charon m anim (relational adjective Charonův)

2. (Greek mythology) alternative spelling of Charón (the ferryman of Hades)
   • 1892, Jan Blokša, “Dante Alighieri a Vergilius Maro”, in Hlídka‎, volume 9, page 318:

     Charon uviděv Aeneáše ozbrojeného připomněl si Heraklea, který též tak přišel a násilně si v podsvětí počínal,

     Charon having seen armed Aeneas remembered Herakles, who had also come in such a way and behaved violently in the underworld,

• “Charon”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

From Ancient Greek Χᾰ́ρων (Khắrōn).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
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Charōn m sg (genitive Charontis or Charontos or Charōnis); third declension

1. Charon (ferryman of the underworld in Greek mythology)

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ōn or non-Greek-type or non-Greek-type; two different stems), singular only.

• charōnēus

• “Charon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Charon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.rɔn/

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• Rhymes: -arɔn
• Syllabification: Cha‧ron

Charon m pers

1. (Greek mythology) Charon (ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx)
2. (astronomy) Charon (largest of the five moons of Pluto)

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Charon

1. (Greek mythology) alternative spelling of Haron
2. (astronomy) Charon

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Charon m (not mutable)

1. (Greek mythology) Charon (the ferryman of the underworld)
2. (astronomy) Charon (a moon of Pluto)