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

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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