Tyrannus

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Tyrannus
       n : type genus of the Tyrannidae: tyrant flycatchers [syn: {genus
           Tyrannus}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Tyrannus
     prince, a Greek rhetorician, in whose "school" at Ephesus Paul
     disputed daily for the space of two years with those who came to
     him (Acts 19:9). Some have supposed that he was a Jew, and that
     his "school" was a private synagogue.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Tyrannus, a prince; one that reigns