On this page you'll find 6 example sentences with Lethe. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as river and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Lethe meaning
- The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.
- The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.
Synonyms of Lethe
Using Lethe
- The main meaning on this page is: The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris. | The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.
- Useful related words include: river lethe, river.
- In the example corpus, lethe often appears in combinations such as: lethe and, of lethe, the lethe.
Context around Lethe
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lethe
- In this selection, "lethe" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nearby, flowed and river stand out and add context to how "lethe" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include drank of lethe and then and instead of lethe. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lethe" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lethe
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lethe and Lois are teenaged schoolchildren who are lucky enough to have been born pats. (15 words)
Initiates were encouraged to drink from the river Mnemosyne when they died, instead of Lethe. (15 words)
After their choice the souls drank of Lethe and then shot away like stars to their birth. (17 words)
Ovid wrote that the river flowed through the cave of Hypnos, god of sleep, where its murmuring would induce drowsiness. citation The shades of the dead were required to drink the waters of the Lethe in order to forget their earthly life. (42 words)
Also known as the Ameles potamos (river of unmindfulness), the Lethe flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld, where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. (31 words)
Locke heads to the besieged town to slow the Empire's advance, while the rest of the group makes their way via rafting down the nearby Lethe River. (28 words)
Example sentences (6)
Lethe and Lois are teenaged schoolchildren who are lucky enough to have been born pats.
After their choice the souls drank of Lethe and then shot away like stars to their birth.
Also known as the Ameles potamos (river of unmindfulness), the Lethe flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld, where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness.
Initiates were encouraged to drink from the river Mnemosyne when they died, instead of Lethe.
Locke heads to the besieged town to slow the Empire's advance, while the rest of the group makes their way via rafting down the nearby Lethe River.
Ovid wrote that the river flowed through the cave of Hypnos, god of sleep, where its murmuring would induce drowsiness. citation The shades of the dead were required to drink the waters of the Lethe in order to forget their earthly life.
Common combinations with lethe
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lethe and 2×
- of lethe 2×
- the lethe 2×