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Lydia vs Croesus - What's the difference?

lydia | croesus |

As proper nouns the difference between lydia and croesus

is that lydia is a historic region of sw asia minor/persia while croesus is (historical).

As a noun croesus is

(figuratively) a rich person.

lydia

English

Alternative forms

* Lidia

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A historic region of SW Asia Minor/Persia.
  • A woman converted by Paul; presumably named for ancestry or residence in Lydia.
  • * :
    • And a certain woman named Lydia , a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
  • * 1813 (Jane Austen), :
    • Lydia was a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen, with a fine complexion and good-humoured countenance; a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.
  • * 1990 (Sue Miller), Family Pictures , Harper & Row, ISBN 0060163976, page 5:
    • The first three, Macklin, Lydia , and Randall, were the special ones. Even those names, we thought, showed greater imagination, greater involvement on our parents' part, than ours did: Nina, Mary, Sarah.

    Derived terms

    * adjective: Lydian

    Related terms

    * pet form: Liddy

    Anagrams

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    croesus

    English

    (wikipedia Croesus)

    Alternative forms

    *

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (historical) .
  • (specifically) A king of Lydia, noted for his great wealth.
  • * , chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus —and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (figuratively) A rich person.
  • * 1875', , "Benvolio" in ''The Galaxy'' ' 20 (2) (August 1875).
    • "Decidedly he was to be a great man, and this was not the moment for letting him go! At the same time there was something impressive in this extraordinary lapse in his eagerness—in his finding it so easy to forget his honors. It was only an intellectual Croesus , the Countess said to herself, who could afford to keep so loose an account."

    Anagrams

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