单词 | Byzantine |
释义 | Byzantine (once / 1959 pages) 1adjn 2adj 3adj WORD FAMILY Byzantine: Byzantines USAGE EXAMPLESPeter Frankopan is a senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. BBC(Dec 22, 2016) Later, it became part of the Roman empire, then was captured from the Byzantines by Arab Muslims in AD636. The Guardian(Dec 18, 2016) In age, the shipwrecks range from the Byzantine, to the Venetian, to the Ottoman empires, dating from the ninth to the 19th centuries. New York Times(Dec 16, 2016) 1 1adj of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium 2n a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire 2Hyper Asian, Asiatic a native or inhabitant of Asia adj of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it 3Byzantine monks Byzantine rites adj highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious the Byzantine tax structure Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship Syn convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous complex complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts |
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