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英英字典: byzantine

byzantine   (Sound)



Overview of noun byzantine

The noun byzantine has 1 sense


  • Byzantine -- (a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire)


Overview of adj byzantine

The adj byzantine has 3 senses


  • Byzantine -- (of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites")

  • Byzantine -- (of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium)

  • Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous -- (highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "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")

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