Definitionen
1.NounThe 19th-century practice of bringing a lion (“an interesting person or object”) into one’s home as entertainment for visitors.
The state of being the lion (see above) of 19th-century hosts.
2.NounThe 19th-century practice of bringing a lion (“an interesting person or object”) into one’s home as entertainment for visitors.
3.NounThe state of being the lion (see above) of 19th-century hosts.
4.NounThe practice of lionizing (“treating a person as a celebrity or someone important”); also, the state of being lionized.
5.NounThe state of a person having a leonine facies, that is, facial features which resemble those of a lion as a result of some disease, especially a form of leprosy which causes leontiasis (“a medical condition characterized by an overgrowth of the cranial and facial bones”).
6.NounThe ideals of Rastafarianism.
7.Proper nounAlternative letter-case form of Lionism (“the ideals of and membership in the Lions Club”).