Associations to the word «Ephesus»

Wiktionary

EPHESUS, proper noun. A city of ancient Anatolia, in what is now Turkey.

Dictionary definition

EPHESUS, noun. An ancient Greek city on the western shore of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the Temple of Artemis; was a major trading center and played an important role in early Christianity.
EPHESUS, noun. The third ecumenical council in 431 which declared Mary as mother of God and condemned Pelagius.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats