[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]