Lethe

Definition: Lethe

Lethe

Noun

1. (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.

Date "Lethe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Lethe

Domain	Definitions
Energy	A measure of air purity that is equal to one complete air change (in an interior space). (references)
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Specialty Definition: Lethe

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In ancient Greek mythology, one of the several rivers of Hades. Drinking from the river Lethe ("(river of) forgetfulness" or "oblivion") caused complete forgetfulness. Some ancient Greeks believed that souls were made to drink from the river before being reincarnated, so they would not remember their past lives.

Some gnostic groups taught the existence of another river, the Mnemosyne; those who drank from the Mnemosyne would remember everything and attain omniscience. Initiates were taught that they would receive a choice of rivers to drink from after death, and to drink from Mnemosyne instead of Lethe.

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Synonym: Lethe

Synonym: River Lethe (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Lethe

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Oblivion	Short memory, treacherous memory, poor memory, loose memory, slippery memory, failing memory; decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory; waters of Lethe, waters of oblivion.
	Noun: oblivion, obliviousness, lethe; forgetfulness; Adjective: amnesia; obliteration; of, insensibility; to the past.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Lethe

English words defined with "Lethe": Lethean, Letheed ♦ River Lethe. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Lethe" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (Lethe).

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Commercial Usage: Lethe

Domain	Title
Books	Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson (River Lethe Book) (reference) Lancelot Du Lethe (reference) Lethe (reference) The River Lethe (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Lethe

"Lethe" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lethe" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	2	245,945

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Expressions: Lethe

Expressions using "Lethe": River Lethe ♦ waters of Lethe. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lethe

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
lethe	14
lethe rivulet	4
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Modern Translations: Lethe

Language		Translations for "Lethe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Lumi I Harresës (lethean stream). (various references)

Bulgarian		Забрава, Забвение, Лета. (various references)

Dutch		Lethe. (various references)

Esperanto		Leto. (various references)

Greek		Λήθη. (various references)

Hungarian		Léthé. (various references)

Pig Latin		ethelay

Portuguese		Letes (lethiferous), Rio Do Inferno, Inércia (doldrums, inertia, inertness, lifelike, passivity, rest, torpidity). (various references)

Russian		Лета. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		leta. (various references)

Swedish		Lete (lethean stream). (various references)

Turkish		Unutkanlık Nehri, Unutkanlık (amnesia, forgetfulness, obliviousness). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự quên lãng. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Lethe

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Lethe": lethean, lethes. (additional references)
	Words containing "Lethe": blether, blethered, blethering, blethers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lethe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eletha, Jepthe, Kleth, Leetham, leethe, lehti, Leithe, Lemhi, Lethaby, Leutze, Llethyr, Ltee, Luehea, Luhta, Luhti, Luthce. (additional references)
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Anagrams: Lethe

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-l-t"
	-1 letter: heel, leet, teel, tele, thee.
	-2 letters: eel, eth, het, lee, let, tee, tel, the.
	-3 letters: eh, el, et, he.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-l-t"
	+1 letter: bethel, helmet, lethes.
	+2 letters: athlete, bethels, blether, chelate, haltere, heeltap, helmets, leather, letched, letches, lethean, shelter, sheltie, shtetel, telpher, theelin, theelol, thermel.
	+3 letters: anethole, athletes, beclothe, blethers, chelated, chelates, chevalet, elephant, eleventh, ethereal, ethylate, ethylene, exhalent, fletched, fletcher, fletches, haltered, halteres, hateable, heatable, heatedly, heatless, heelpost, heeltaps, hellbent, hellkite, helmeted, helotage, helpmate, helpmeet, hosteled, hosteler, hotelier, hotelmen, lathered, latherer, leachate, leathern, leathers, leathery, lengthen, pesthole, phenetol, reclothe, shelters, shelties, shtetels, sleuthed, telepath, telethon, telphers, theelins, theelols, thermels, thewless.
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