NICAEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nicaea mean? 

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

1. an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325

2. the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images

3. the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism

  Familiarity information: NICAEA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NICAEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Bithynia (an ancient country in northwestern Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; was absorbed into the Roman Empire by the end of the 1st century BC)

Derivation:

Nicaean (of or relating to the ancient city of Nicaea in Asia Minor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Nicaea; Second Council of Nicaea

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

ecumenical council ((early Christian church) one of seven gatherings of bishops from around the known world under the presidency of the Pope to regulate matters of faith and morals and discipline)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

First Council of Nicaea; Nicaea

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

ecumenical council ((early Christian church) one of seven gatherings of bishops from around the known world under the presidency of the Pope to regulate matters of faith and morals and discipline)