CONSTANTINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Constantine mean? 

• CONSTANTINE (noun)
  The noun CONSTANTINE has 2 senses:

1. Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)

2. a walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I

  Familiarity information: CONSTANTINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSTANTINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Constantine; Constantine I; Constantine the Great; Flavius Valerius Constantinus

Instance hypernyms:

Emperor of Rome; Roman Emperor (sovereign of the Roman Empire)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Algeria; Algerie; Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria (a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s)

 Context examples 

There is still the city of Constantine to be taken, and war to be waged against the Soldan of Damascus.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he would pass through the land of the Almains and the great Roman Empire, and so to the country of the Huns and of the Lithuanian pagans, beyond which lies the great city of Constantine and the kingdom of the unclean followers of Mahmoud.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)