ephesus   (TTS Sound)

The noun ephesus has 2 senses

• Ephesus -- (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, Council of Ephesus -- (the third ecumenical council in 431 which declared Mary as mother of God and condemned Pelagius)