nicaea   (TTS Sound)

The noun nicaea has 3 senses

• Nicaea -- (an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325)


• Nicaea, Second Council of Nicaea -- (the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images)


• Nicaea, First Council of Nicaea -- (the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism)