Lethe

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Death.
  • An obsolete variant of lithe.
  • noun. In Gr. myth.: The personification of oblivion, a daughter of Eris.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.
  • noun. In entomology, a genus of nymphalid butterflies, with one species, L. europa, from the Malay archipelago.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.
  • noun. Oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.
  • noun. Death.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (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
  • Word Usage
    "Greeks at the time, long before Aristotle, understood what Aletheia was, with heavy influence of what "lethe" was."
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