STAMBOUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Stamboul mean? 

• STAMBOUL (noun)
  The noun STAMBOUL 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: STAMBOUL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAMBOUL (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 "Stamboul"):

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 ("Stamboul" 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 

If you have a fancy for anything in that line, away with you, sir, to the bazaars of Stamboul without delay, and lay out in extensive slave- purchases some of that spare cash you seem at a loss to spend satisfactorily here.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)