Lion

Noun

 * 1) A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly to much of Europe.  The term may apply to the species as a whole, to individuals, or to male individuals.  It also applies to related species like mountain lions.
 * : A stylized representation of a large cat, used on a coat of arms.
 * 1) * The arms of the University of the West Indies are Barry wavy of six Argent and Azure an open Book proper bound Gules garnished Or on a Chief of the third a Lion passant guardant Erminois. Crest: A Pelican proper. (in other words a spotted lion lying down). See talk page.
 * 2) A Chinese foo dog.
 * 3) An individual who shows strength and courage, attributes associated with the lion.
 * 4) * It was said of [Edward Plantaganet] that 'he was a lion for pride and ferocity but a pard for inconstancy and changeableness, not keeping his word or promise but excusing himself with fair words'. 2003 Peter Armstrong & Angus McBride Stirling Bridge & Falkirk 1297-98: William Wallace's Rebellion.
 * 5) A famous person.

Coordinate terms

 * cougar, leopard, panther, puma, tiger
 * cub, lioness

Holonyms

 * pride

Derived terms

 * antlion, ant lion
 * aphid lion, aphis lion
 * beard the lion
 * Cape lion
 * cave lion
 * dandelion
 * golden lion tamarin
 * Lion of Judah
 * Lion of St Mark
 * Lion of Venice
 * lion's ear
 * lion's foot
 * lion's leaf
 * lion's share
 * lion's tail
 * lion's tooth


 * lion cub
 * lioness
 * lionfish
 * Lionheart
 * lionhearted, lion-hearted
 * lionhood
 * lionise, lionize
 * lionism
 * lionlike
 * lionly
 * lionship
 * marsupial lion
 * mountain lion
 * Nemean lion
 * sea lion
 * Steller's sea lion
 * twist the lion's tail

Related terms

 * leo
 * Leon
 * Leonids


 * leonine
 * Lion's club
 * Lion's sermon
 * Lyon

Adjectives for Lion
tameless; tawny-bearded; prisoned; rampant; jagged-jawed; wondrous.

Verbs for Lion
encounter—; rouse—; slay—; —attacks; — carries off; —claws; —creeps upon; —devours; —drags off; —forages; —glaies; —growls; —menaces; —paws; —preys on; —purrs; —rages; —rampages; —roams; — roars; —rolls over; —slaughters; —springs; —stalks; —stretches; —tears; —yawns.

Thesaurus
Achilles, David, Establishment, Gibraltar, Hector, Leo, Roland, Samson, Siberian tiger, VIP, a man, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baron, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, big boy, big gun, big man, big name, big-timer, bigwig, billet, blazon, blazonry, bobcat, bordure, brass, brass hat, brave, broad arrow, bulldog, cadency mark, canton, cat-a-mountain, catamount, celebrity, chaplet, charge, cheetah, chevron, chief, chutzpanik, coat of arms, cockatrice, constellation, coronet, cougar, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cynosure, decorated hero, demigod, demigoddess, device, difference, differencing, dignitary, dignity, eagle, elder, eminence, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, father, fess, fess point, field, fighting cock, figure, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, folk hero, fret, fur, fusil, galaxy, gallant, gamecock, garland, good soldier, great man, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, heart of oak, helmet, heraldic device, hero, heroine, high-muck-a-muck, honor point, horse, idol, immortal, impalement, impaling, important person, inescutcheon, interests, iron, jaguar, label, leader, leopard, lords of creation, lozenge, luminaries, luminary, lynx, magnate, man of courage, man of mark, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, master spirit, metal, mogul, motto, mountain lion, mullet, nabob, nails, name, nombril point, notability, notable, oak, ocelot, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, ox, painter, paladin, pale, paly, panjandrum, panther, pean, person of note, person of renown, personage, personality, pheon, pillar of society, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, power, power elite, public figure, puma, purpure, quarter, quartering, rock, rose, ruling circle, sable, sachem, saltire, scutcheon, shield, simba, social lion, somebody, something, spread eagle, stalwart, star, steel, subordinary, superstar, tenne, the brave, the great, the top, tiger, tincture, top brass, top people, torse, tressure, tycoon, unicorn, vair, valiant, valiant knight, vert, very important person, wildcat, worthy, wreath, yale

Etymology
From lion:, from  leo:, (genitive: leonis:), from  λέων:, likely a borrowing from a Semitic language; compare.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: алым
 * Afrikaans: leeu
 * Akan: gyata
 * Amharic: አንበሳ (anbäsa)
 * Arabic: (’ásad)
 * Egyptian: (’ásad)
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܐܪܝܐ (’aryā’)
 * Hebrew: אריא (’aryā’)
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: lehoi
 * Belarusian: леў
 * Bengali: সিংহ
 * Binisayâ: liyón
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: лъв (lâv)
 * Burmese: ခြင်္သေ့
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᏝᏓᏥ (tladatsi), ᎲᏓᏱ (hvdayi)
 * Chinese:
 * Simplified Chinese: 狮 (shī), 狮子 (shīzi)
 * Traditional Chinese: 獅, 獅子
 * Coptic:
 * Crimean Tatar: arslan
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: løve, (løver), (løvinde) , (løvinder)
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: dzata
 * Filipino:
 * Kapampangan:
 * Tagalog: leon, liyon
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: Löwe, Löwin (lioness); Leu  (poetic)
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: λέων (léon)
 * Hawaiian: liona
 * Hebrew: אריה (aryeh)
 * Hindi: शेर (šer), सिंह (si.nh)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ライオン (raion), 獅子 (しし, shishi)
 * Kannada: ಸಿಂಹ (singha)
 * Kazakh: арыстан
 * Khmer: (seung),  (dtao)
 * Korean: 사자 (saja)
 * Kurdish:
 * Lao:, ສິງໂຕ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:


 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban: cinfo
 * Luxembourgish: Léiw
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: സിംഹം (simham)
 * Marathi:
 * Middle High German: lewe; löuwe, leu (poetic)
 * Mongolian:
 * Classical Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: cuāmiztli
 * Navajo:
 * Nepali: सिंह
 * North Frisian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old High German: lewo, leo
 * Old Prussian: laūws
 * Persian: (šīr)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: lav
 * Sindhi: (šeehu~),  (šeehinn)
 * Sinhala: සිංහය (sinnnhaya)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: libaax
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: шер
 * Tamazight: izem, ayrad , aher , tasedda
 * Tamil: சிங்கம் (cingkam)
 * Telugu: సింహము (saMhamu)
 * Thai: (sing-tō),  (rāchasīh)
 * Tibetan:
 * Tswana: (9/10)
 * Turkish:
 * Ugaritic:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: (babar šer), ,
 * Uyghur: ئارسلان
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: leon,  hileon,  jileon,  leonül,  hileonül,  jileonül,  lein
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Xhosa: ingonyama
 * Yiddish: לייב (leyb)
 * Yoruba: kìnìún
 * Zulu: ingonyama


 * French:


 * Macedonian:


 * Macedonian:
 * Persian: شیردل


 * Swahili: ,


 * : सिण्हः

Anagrams

 * lino, loin, noil

Noun

 * 1)  (animal)
 * 2)   (brave person)
 * Se défendre comme un lion, - to defend oneself with great courage
 * 1)  a style of elegant young man that came after the dandy
 * 1)  a style of elegant young man that came after the dandy
 * 1)  a style of elegant young man that came after the dandy

Etymology
From, borrowed from leo:, leonis.

Anagrams

 * loin

Noun

 * 1) lion animal

Etymology
leo: