Charon

Hypernyms

 * ; - order;  - superfamily;  - family

Hyponyms

 * - type species; for other species see

Etymology
From. The name of the moon was, in reference to a fictional moon of Pluto in a novel by but also influenced by its similarity to , a pet name for , his wife's name — hence the alternative American pronunciation, which is used at.

Proper noun

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

Synonyms

 * ⯕

Translations

 * Arabic: شَارُون
 * Cherokee: ᎧᎶᏂ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 冥衛一
 * Czech: Charon
 * Danish: Charon
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Greenlandic: Charoni
 * Hungarian: Kharón
 * Italian: Caronte
 * Japanese:, シャロン
 * Korean: ^카론
 * Macedonian: Харон
 * Maori: kūwata
 * Marathi: केरन
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Caronte
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: Carunti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: خَارُون
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Breton: C'haron
 * Bulgarian: Харо́н
 * Catalan: Caront
 * Cherokee: ᎧᎶᏂ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 卡戎
 * Corsican: Caronti
 * Czech: Charón, Charon
 * Danish: Karon
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: Χάρων
 * Greenlandic: Charoni
 * Hebrew: כארון
 * Hungarian: Charon, Kharón
 * Indonesian: Kharon
 * Inuktitut: ᖄᕈᓐ
 * Irish: Carón
 * Japanese: カローン
 * Korean: ^카론
 * Ligurian: Caronte, Charu, Charun
 * Lithuanian: Charonas
 * Macedonian: Харон
 * Marathi: केरन
 * Norwegian: Kharon
 * Persian: خارون
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Caronte
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: Ха̑рон
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: Carunti
 * Slovak: Charón, Cháron
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: แครอน
 * Turkish: Kharoon
 * Ukrainian: Харо́н

Noun

 * 1)  Any ferryman.

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1)    moon of Pluto

Proper noun

 * 1)   the ferryman of Hades