Byzantine
Meaning of Byzantine
- relating to Byzantium (now Istanbul), the Byzantine Empire, or the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- (of a system or situation) excessively complicated, and typically involving a great deal of administrative detail.
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noun
a citizen of Byzantium or the Byzantine Empire.
late 16th century: from Latin Byzantinus, from Byzantium.
Information about Byzantine
- The plural form of Byzantine is: Byzantines.
- Languages in which Byzantine is used:
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Hyphenation of Byzantine
Byzan-tine
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- Byzantine is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Byzantine synonyms
convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous
Translation of Byzantine
- Spanish: bizantino
- German: byzantinisch
- French: byzantin
- Italian: bizantino
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