noun
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
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑city, ↑metropolis, ↑urban center
• Part Holonyms: ↑Turkey, ↑Republic of Turkey
• Part Meronyms:
2. the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches
• Syn: ↑Fourth Council of Constantinople
• Hypernyms: ↑council
3. the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human
• Syn: ↑Third Council of Constantinople
• Hypernyms: ↑ecumenical council
4. the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic
• Syn: ↑Second Council of Constantinople
• Hypernyms: ↑ecumenical council
5. the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed
• Syn: ↑First Council of Constantinople
• Hypernyms: ↑ecumenical council
Useful english dictionary. 2012.