LYONS

Lyons, First Council of Lyons

(noun) the council of the Western Church in 1245 that excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and planned a new crusade against the Holy Land

Lyons, Second Council of Lyons

(noun) the council in 1274 that effected a temporary reunion of the Greek Orthodox with the Roman Catholic Church

Lyon, Lyons

(noun) a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

6 May 2025

HEEDLESS

(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”


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