lyon

Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

lyon(n = noun.location) lyons - a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon;

is a kind of city, metropolis, urban center

is a part of france, french republic, lyonnais

lyon, n. (in full Lord Lyon or Lyon King of Arms) the chief herald of Scotland.

Idiom

Lyon Court the court over which he presides.

Etymology

archaic form. of LION: named f. the lion on the royal shield