English noun: Constance | |||
1. | Constance (object) a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River | ||
Synonyms | Bodensee, Lake Constance | ||
Instance hypernym | lake | ||
Part meronym | Deutschland, Federal Republic of Germany, FRG, Germany | ||
2. | Constance (group) the council in 1414-1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church | ||
Synonyms | Council of Constance | ||
Broader (hypernym) | council | ||