stamboul

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

   SynonymsIstanbulStambulConstantinople

   Broadercity

   Part ofTurkey

   PartsBosporus BridgeHagia SophiaChalcedon

Other forms of stamboul

plural

stambouls·

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 stamboul

What does stamboul mean?

stamboul 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".

How many syllables are in stamboul?

stamboul has 2 syllables: stam-boul. The stress falls on "stam".

What is another word for stamboul?

Close synonyms include Istanbul, Stambul, 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 stamboul a common word?

stamboul 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.