Ephesian

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A native or inhabitant of ancient Ephesus.
2. n. See Table at Bible.
3. adj. Of or relating to ancient Ephesus or its people, language, or culture.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia on the coast of Asia Minor at the mouth of the river Caÿster, famous as the seat of a peculiar form of worship of Artemis, for the legends of Amazons connected with this cultus, for the magnificent temple of Artemis (the Artemision or Artemisium, commonly called the temple of Diana), and as a large and important commercial city. In Christian times Ephesus became noted as a center of St. Paul's work in Asia Minor (one of his epistles also being inscribed “to the Ephesians”), as one of the seven churches of the Apocalypse, and as the residence and death-place of St. John, after whom a modern village on the site is called Aiasuluk (that is, “Αγιος Θεόλογος, the Holy Divine). It had the title of apostolic see, and its metropolitan had a rank nearly equal to that of patriarch, till overshadowed by the rise of the patriarchate of Constantinople. It was also the scene of a number of ecclesiastical councils, one of them ecumenical. Also Ephesine.
2. n. A native or an inhabitant of Ephesus: as, the epistle of Paul to the Ephesians.
3. n. A boon companion; a jolly fellow.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Of, from, or pertaining to, Ephesus
2. n. Someone from Ephesus
3. n. obsolete A jolly companion; a roisterer.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia, in Asia Minor.
2. n. A native of Ephesus.
3. n. obsolete A jolly companion; a roisterer.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. of or relating to ancient Ephesus or its people or language or culture
2. n. a resident of the ancient Greek city of Ephesus