constantine the great

1. 1.

   Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)

   SynonymsConstantineConstantine IFlavius Valerius Constantinus

   BroaderRoman Emperor

Questions about constantine the great

What does constantine the great mean?

constantine the great means "Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)".

What is another word for constantine the great?

Close synonyms include Constantine, Constantine I, Flavius Valerius Constantinus. 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 constantine the great a common word?

constantine the great is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.