lyons

Other forms of lyons

plural

lyonses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lyons

What does lyons mean?

lyons means "a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lyons?

lyons has 2 syllables: ly-ons. The stress falls on "ly". In IPA it is /ˈlaɪənz/.

What is another word for lyons?

Close synonyms include Lyon, Second Council of Lyons, First Council of Lyons. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lyons a common word?

lyons is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.