LYONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lyons mean? 

• LYONS (noun)
  The noun LYONS has 3 senses:

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

2. the council in 1274 that effected a temporary reunion of the Greek Orthodox with the Roman Catholic Church

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

  Familiarity information: LYONS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYONS (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 ("Lyons" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Lyons; Second Council of Lyons

Hypernyms ("Lyons" is a kind of...):

council ((Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

First Council of Lyons; Lyons

Hypernyms ("Lyons" is a kind of...):

council ((Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine)

 Context examples 

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)

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)

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)

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)