Noun has 5 senses

• constantinople(n = noun.location) istanbul, stamboul, stambul - the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church;




• constantinople(n = noun.group) fourth council of constantinople - the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches;


• constantinople(n = noun.group) third council of constantinople - the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human;


• constantinople(n = noun.group) second council of constantinople - the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic;


• constantinople(n = noun.group) first council of constantinople - the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed;