byzantium

Other forms of byzantium

plural

byzantiums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about byzantium

What does byzantium mean?

byzantium means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in byzantium?

byzantium has 4 syllables: by-zan-ti-um. The stress falls on "zan". In IPA it is /bəˈzæntiəm/.

What is another word for byzantium?

Close synonyms include Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is byzantium a common word?

byzantium is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.