Definition of Lateran

1. Noun. The site in Rome containing the church of Rome and the Lateran Palace.

Terms within: Lateran Palace
Generic synonyms: Land Site, Site
Group relationships: Capital Of Italy, Eternal City, Italian Capital, Roma, Rome

Definition of Lateran

1. n. The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world.

Definition of Lateran

1. Proper noun. A church and palace in Rome; used attributively to describe several councils and treaties ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lateran

Lastex
Lasthenia
Lasthenia chrysostoma
Lastreopsis
Laszlo Lowestein
Lat.
Latarget
Latarget's nerve
Latarget's vein
Late Egyptian
Late Greek
Late Latin
Late Middle Ages
Late antiquity
Lateef
Lateran (current term)
Lateran Council
Lateran Palace
Lateran Treaty
Latgalian
Latgalians
Lathyrus
Lathyrus hirsutus
Lathyrus japonicus
Lathyrus latifolius
Lathyrus maritimus
Lathyrus niger
Lathyrus nissolia
Lathyrus odoratus
Lathyrus palustris

Literary usage of Lateran

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1899)
"While these events were occurring in Gaul, Pope Stephen III, having obtained the consent of the two young kings, was holding a synod in the Lateran ..."

2. Supplementary Papers of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome by Archaeological Institute of America (1905)
"The others may be seen in Strzygowski, Ikonographie der Taufe Christi. pl. i, except the one on a Lateran sarcophagus (Bull, di Arch, crist. 1882, pp. ..."

3. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"The eighth session of the Lateran Council was held solemnly on Sunday the ... Besides the Pope, who had gone to the Lateran the evening before, twenty-three ..."

4. The English Review (1849)
"The Statutes of the Fourth General Council of Lateran, recognized and established by subsequent Councils and Synods, doum to the Council of Trent. ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1826)
"Match 21 , I . CHAP, ted in the Lateran ; the grateful pontiff crowned his protector LVI. in the Vatican ; and the emperor Henry fixed his residence .«-. ..."

6. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"addressing the Fifth Lateran Council (1512) reckons among its chief objects ecclesiastical reform ; before its opening he had named a commission which was ..."

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