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