Byzantine

Definition: Byzantine

Byzantine

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites".

2. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or ancient Byzantium; "Byzantine art and architecture".

3. Highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months".

4. Characterized by elaborate scheming and intrigue; devious; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "a fine hand for Byzantine deals and cozy arrangements".

Noun

1. The style of architecture developed in the Byzantine Empire; massive domes with square bases and rounded arches and spires and minarets and much use of mosaics.

Date "Byzantine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Specialty Definition: Byzantine

Domain	Definition
Computing	Byzantine A term describing any system that has so many labyrinthine internal interconnections that it would be impossible to simplify by separation into loosely coupled or linked components. The city of Byzantium, later renamed Constantinople and then Istanbul, and the Byzantine Empire were vitiated by a bureaucratic overelaboration bordering on lunacy: quadruple banked agencies, dozens or even scores of superfluous levels and officials with high flown titles unrelated to their actual function, if any. Access to the Emperor and his council was controlled by powerful and inscrutable eunuchs and by rival sports factions. [Edward Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"]. (1999-01-15). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Synonyms: Byzantine

Synonyms: convoluted (adj), intricate (adj), involved (adj), knotty (adj), labyrinthine (adj), tangled (adj), tortuous (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Byzantine

English words defined with "Byzantine": Belisarius, bezant, bezzant, Bizantine, byzant, Byzantian, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine church, Byzantine empire, Byzantine Greek, Byzantine historians, Byzantine style ♦ Cimabue, Constantinople, convoluted ♦ Eastern Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Exarch ♦ Ferula ♦ Giotto, Giotto di Bondone, Giovanni Cimabue, Greek Church, Greek Empire, Greek fire ♦ intricate, involved, Istanbul ♦ Justinian, Justinian I, Justinian the Great ♦ knotty ♦ labyrinthine ♦ onion dome, Orthodox Catholic Church, Orthodox Church ♦ patrician, Pragmatic sanction ♦ solidus, Stamboul, Stambul ♦ tangled, tortuous. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Byzantine": Basilics, Born in the Purple, Byzantine generals, Byzantines ♦ Kingly Titles. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Byzantine

Domain	Title
Books	Art of the Byzantine Empire, 312-1453: Sources and Documents (reference) Byzantine Armies 1118-1461 (Osprey Men-At-Arms Series, No 287) (reference) Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture (Pelican History of Art Series) (reference) Faith in the Byzantine World (Ivp Histories) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	American Institute For Patristic & Byzantine Studies Membership (reference) Byzantine Catholic World (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	American Byzantine (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Sacred Byzantine Music (reference) Byzantine Chant- Passion & Resurrection (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Byzantine

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Non-Fiction Usage: Byzantine

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Bulgaria	Byzantine rule was short-lived, however. (references)
	Bulgaria	In 1018, Bulgaria fell under the authority of the Byzantine Empire. (references)
	Morocco	Romans, Vandals, Visigoths, and Byzantine Greeks successively ruled the area. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Byzantine

"Byzantine" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.01% of the time. "Byzantine" is used about 402 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.01%	390	14,213
Noun (proper)	2.99%	12	101,599
Total	100.00%	402	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Byzantine

Expressions using "Byzantine": byzantine architecture ♦ Byzantine church ♦ byzantine emperor ♦ Byzantine empire ♦ byzantine Greek ♦ Byzantine historians ♦ Byzantine style. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Byzantine": byzantine-romanesque.
	Containing "Byzantine": victorian-byzantine-gothic.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Byzantine

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
byzantine empire	174	byzantine empire picture	8
byzantine	154	the byzantine rite	8
byzantine icon	89	byzantine chain	7
byzantine art	55	byzantine army	7
byzantine catholic	39	byzantine ring	6
byzantine architecture	39	byzantine fire ship	5
byzantine jewelry	33	21 athos byzantine century greece icon meteora monastery mount	5
byzantine music	24	byzantine costume	5
byzantine coin	19	byzantine empire history	5
byzantine empire map	15	byzantine font	4
byzantine catholic church	14	byzantine map	4
byzantine church	12	byzantine art and architecture	4
byzantine necklace	11	byzantine iconography	4
byzantine mosaic	10	agreement byzantine	4
byzantine cross	10	byzantine constantinople monastery	3
byzantine chant	9	byzantine painting	3
byzantine history	9	byzantine gold chain	3
byzantine bracelet	9	byzantine music program	3
byzantine emperor	9	byzantine flag	3
byzantine crosse	8	byzantine era	3
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Modern Translation: Byzantine

Language		Translations for "Byzantine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		Bisantyns. (various references)

Albanian		bizantin (byzantinesque). (various references)

Arabic		‏إمبراطور بيزنطى (byzantine emperor). (various references)

Bulgarian		византийски (byzantinesque), византиец. (various references)

Czech		byzantský, spletitý (complicated, elaborate, intricate). (various references)

Dutch		Byzantýns, Byzantýn. (various references)

Esperanto		bizancano, bizanca. (various references)

Farsi		وابسته بروم شرقی . (various references)

Finnish		bysanttilainen. (various references)

French		byzantin. (various references)

German		byzantinsch, byzantinisch, byzantinerin, byzantiner. (various references)

Greek		βυζαντινόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		bizánci (bezant). (various references)

Indonesian		penduduk istambul. (various references)

Italian		bizantino. (various references)

Manx		Baisantagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		yzantinebay

Portuguese		bizantino. (various references)

Romanian		bizantin (byzantian). (various references)

Russian		византийский (byzantinesque). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bizantijski, bizant, vizantijski, vizantija. (various references)

Spanish		bizantino (academic, academical). (various references)

Swedish		bysantinsk (byzantinesque). (various references)

Thai		เกี่ยวกับสถาปัตยกรรมศตวรรษที่ 5-15 ของอา�"าจักร Byzantine. (various references)

Turkish		bizans ile ilgili. (various references)

Ukrainian		візанті�"ць, візантійський. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Byzantine

Misspellings
	"Byzantine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bizantina, bizantino, byzantian, byzantina. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Byzantine"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Byzantine" (pronounced bi"zuntī'n or bi"zuntē'n)
5	-u n t ī' n	Eglantine, serpentine, turpentine, Valentine.
3	-t ī' n	Palatine.
5	-u n t ē' n	argentine, quarantine.
4	-n t ē' n	elephantine.
3	-t ē' n	carotene, guillotine, Holstein, libertine, mangosteen, nicotine, protein.
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Anagrams: Byzantine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-n-n-t-y-z"
	-3 letters: bannet, benzin, bezant, binate, byzant, innate, ninety, zeatin.
	-4 letters: anent, azine, baize, banty, benni, benny, entia, inane, inbye, tenia, tinea, tinny, yenta, zayin, zibet, zineb.
	-5 letters: abet, abye, ante, anti, ayin, bait, bane, bani, bate, bean, beat, bent, beta, bine, bint, bite, bize, byte, etna, inby, nabe, nazi, neat, nine, nite, tain, tine.
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