LYON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lyon mean? 

• LYON (noun)
  The noun LYON has 1 sense:

1. a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon

  Familiarity information: LYON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Lyon; Lyons

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Lyon" is a part of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

Lyonnais (a former province of east central France; now administered by Rhone-Alpes)

 Context examples 

I was also on such an occasion thrust through the shoulder by Lyon de Montcourt, whom I met on the high road betwixt Libourne and Bordeaux.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is considered a tumor of uncertain malignant potential (adapted from WHO, IARC Press, Lyon, 2004).

(Parathyroid Gland Atypical Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Felix conducted the fugitives through France to Lyons and across Mont Cenis to Leghorn, where the merchant had decided to wait a favourable opportunity of passing into some part of the Turkish dominions.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Not one of them but bore its two ankers of the right French cognac, or its bale of silk of Lyons and lace of Valenciennes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nosopharm, a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France, are part of an international team reporting on the discovery of a new class of antibiotics.

(A New Class of Antibiotics to Combat Drug Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On referring to my notes I see that it was upon the 14th of April that I received a telegram from Lyons which informed me that Holmes was lying ill in the Hotel Dulong.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A little diplomacy was needed, but when Holmes understood that the establishment was a bachelor one, and that he would be allowed the fullest freedom, he fell in with my plans and a week after our return from Lyons we were under the Colonel’s roof.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)