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Lyonnesse

Lyonnesse is the alternative form of Lyonesse.

Meaning of Lyonesse

Proper noun

Lyonesse

  1. A kingdom mentioned in Arthurian legend, consisting of a long strand of land stretching from Land's End at the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England to what is now the Isles of Scilly in the Celtic Sea portion of the Atlantic Ocean. It was considered lost after being swallowed by the ocean in a single night.

Questions about Lyonnesse

What is Lyonnesse the alternative form of?
Lyonnesse is the alternative form of Lyonesse.

Words near Lyonnesse in the dictionary

  1. lyoniums
  2. lyonization
  3. Lyonnais
  4. lyonnaise
  5. Lyonnese
  6. Lyonnesse
  7. lyons
  8. Lyonshall
  9. lyonsiid
  10. lyonsiids
  11. lyonsite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lyonnesse (page history and authors); Lyonesse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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