constance

1. 1.

   a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River

   SynonymsLake ConstanceBodensee

   Broaderlake

   Part ofGermany
2. 2.

   the council in 1414-1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church

   SynonymsCouncil of Constance

   Broadercouncil

Other forms of constance

plural

constances·

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 constance

What does constance mean?

constance means "a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in constance?

constance has 2 syllables: con-stance. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /ˈkɑnstəns/.

What is another word for constance?

Close synonyms include Lake Constance, Bodensee, Council of Constance. 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 constance a common word?

constance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.