lyons

Noun lyons has 3 senses

• lyons(n = noun.location) lyon - 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

• lyons(n = noun.group) second council of lyons - the council in 1274 that effected a temporary reunion of the Greek Orthodox with the Roman Catholic Church;
is a kind of council

• lyons(n = noun.group) first council of lyons - the council of the Western Church in 1245 that excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and planned a new crusade against the Holy Land;
is a kind of council