Erebus

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Erebus
    n 1: (Greek mythology) Greek god of darkness who dwelt in the
         underworld; son of Chaos; brother of Nox; father of Aether
         and Day
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Erebus \Er"e*bus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
   1. (Greek Myth.) A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy
      space through which the souls passed to Hades. See
      Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.
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   2. (Greek Myth.) The son of Chaos and brother of {Nox}, who
      dwelt in Erebus.
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            To the infernal deep, with Erebus and tortures vile.
                                                  --Shak.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "Erebus":
      Aides, Aidoneus, Cerberus, Charon, Cora, Despoina, Dis, Dis pater,
      Egyptian darkness, Hades, Hel, Kore, Loki, Minos, Orcus, Osiris,
      Persephassa, Persephone, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine,
      Rhadamanthus, Satan, blackness, dark, darkness, darkness visible,
      dead of night, intense darkness, lightlessness, moonlessness,
      night, obscure, obscure darkness, obscurity, pitch-darkness,
      pitchy darkness, starlessness, sunlessness, swarthiness,
      tenebrosity, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, total darkness,
      velvet darkness
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