ISTANBUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Istanbul mean? 

• ISTANBUL (noun)
  The noun ISTANBUL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ISTANBUL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ISTANBUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Constantinople; Istanbul; Stamboul; Stambul

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Meronyms (parts of "Istanbul"):

Bosporus Bridge (a suspension bridge across the Bosporus at Istanbul)

Hagia Sofia; Hagia Sophia; Santa Sofia; Santa Sophia (a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century)

Chalcedon; Kadikoy (a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon)

Holonyms ("Istanbul" is a part of...):

Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)

 Context examples 

The observation, by a team of researchers at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey; and the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, could help astronomers better understand the evolution of neutron stars — the incredibly dense remnants after a massive star explodes as a supernova.

(Hubble Uncovers Never-Before-Seen Features Around a Neutron Star, NASA)