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Byzantium
– definition :
- (noun)
- a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 (context:location)
- an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital (context:location)
Byzantinism
– definition :
- (noun)
- the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters (context:cognition)
Byzantine greek
– definition :
- (noun)
- the Greek language from about 600 to 1200 AD (context:communication)
Byzantine empire
– definition :
- (noun)
- a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 (context:location)
Byzantine church
– definition :
- (noun)
- the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire (context:group)
Byzantine architecture
– definition :
- (noun)
- the style of architecture developed in the Byzantine Empire developed after the 5th century; massive domes with square bases and round arches and spires and much use of mosaics (context:cognition)
Byzantine
– definition :
- (adjective)
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious (context:all)
- of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium (context:pert)
- of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it (context:pert)
- (noun)
- a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire (context:person)
– Sample : “byzantine”
- Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
- Byzantine monks
- Byzantine rites
- Oh, what a tangled web we weave
- a knotty problem
- convoluted legal language
- convoluted reasoning
- got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering
- the Byzantine tax structure
- the plot was too involved
- tortuous legal procedures
- tortuous negotiations lasting for months
Byzant
– definition :
- (noun)
- a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages (context:possession)
Byword
– definition :
- (noun)
- a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people (context:communication)
Byway
– definition :
- (noun)
- a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) (context:artifact)