Byzantium
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital
Types & categories
- city instance hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Byzantine member meronym
- Byzantine Empire part holonym
Sense 2 noun
a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395
Types & categories
- geographical area instance hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Byzantine member meronym
- Roman Empire part holonym
- Byzantium part meronym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | Byzantine |
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | Byzantine Empire |
| 1 | instance hypernym | Types & categories | city |
| 2 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | Byzantine |
| 2 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | Roman Empire |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | Byzantium |
| 2 | instance hypernym | Types & categories | geographical area |