Dictionary Entry
byzantine
byzantine is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant. Face value is 23 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 23 · Words With Friends 25 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.
- 2adjective
Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
- 3noun
A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople.
- 4noun
a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
- 5adjective
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious- Sir Walter Scott
"the Byzantine tax structure"
"Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"
- 6adjective
of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
- 7adjective
of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it
"Byzantine monks"
"Byzantine rites"
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