English noun: Constantine | |||
1. | Constantine (person) 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) | ||
Synonyms | Constantine I, Constantine the Great, Flavius Valerius Constantinus | ||
Instance hypernym | Emperor of Rome, Roman Emperor | ||
2. | Constantine (location) a walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I | ||
Instance hypernym | city, metropolis, urban center | ||
Part meronym | Algeria, Algerie, Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria | ||