constantinople

1. 1.

   the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church

   SynonymsIstanbulStambulStamboul

   Broadercity

   Part ofTurkey

   PartsBosporus BridgeHagia SophiaChalcedon
2. 2.

   the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches

   SynonymsFourth Council of Constantinople

   Broadercouncil
3. 3.

   the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human

   SynonymsThird Council of Constantinople

   Broaderecumenical council
4. 4.

   the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic

   SynonymsSecond Council of Constantinople

   Broaderecumenical council
5. 5.

   the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed

   SynonymsFirst Council of Constantinople

   Broaderecumenical council

Other forms of constantinople

plural

constantinoples·

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 constantinople

What does constantinople mean?

constantinople means "the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in constantinople?

constantinople has 5 syllables: con-stan-ti-no-ple. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /ˌkɑnstæntəˈnoʊpəl/.

What is another word for constantinople?

Close synonyms include Istanbul, Stambul, Stamboul, Fourth Council of Constantinople, Third Council of Constantinople. 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 constantinople a common word?

constantinople 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.