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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

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;
[syn: Nicaea, Second Council of Nicaea]

3. the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism;
[syn: Nicaea, First Council of Nicaea]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Nicaea n 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 [syn: Nicaea, Second Council of Nicaea] 3: the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism [syn: Nicaea, First Council of Nicaea]